Re: listview with control child

From:
"PaulH" <paul.heil@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
3 Jan 2007 10:08:23 -0800
Message-ID:
<1167847703.316662.232030@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>
Igor Tandetnik wrote:

PaulH <paul.heil@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a listview with a child control that sits on a row.

When I left click on the child control, I want it to send the
notification back to the list view so that it selects the row as
though I had just clicked on a normal listview element. So, I handled
the WM_LBUTTONDOWN message in the child control to repost the message
to its parent (the listview) as below:

   LRESULT OnLButtonDown(UINT uMsg,
                         WPARAM wParam,
                         LPARAM lParam,
                         BOOL& /*bHandled*/)
   {
       POINT pt = {GET_X_LPARAM(lParam), GET_Y_LPARAM(lParam)};
       MapWindowPoints(GetParent(), &pt, 1);
       LPARAM lp = MAKEWORD(pt.x, pt.y);


That should be MAKELPARAM. MAKEWORD builds a 16-bit value out of two
8-bit parts.

       return GetParent().SendMessage(uMsg, wParam, lp);
   };

But, instead of just selecting that row, the listview treats it as the
x,y coordinate of a selection box that starts in the top-right corner
of the listview and goes to the mouse pointer.


That's because MAKEWORD leaves the high-order word (the Y coordinate)
zero.
--
With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik

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necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to
land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly
overhead. -- RFC 1925


MAKELPARAM works much better. Thank you.

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