Re: How to force uppercase in a CListCtrl
Hi Ali,
If that works then you are correct that it is a better solution, but we were
having trouble getting the style to change. Maybe the secret is to change
the style before the control is actually created. I forgot that there are
some styles that can't be changed afterwards. If this is called before the
window is created then perhaps it could work, but otherwise it looks like
Matt may have the same result.
Tom
"AliR (VC++ MVP)" <AliR@online.nospam> wrote in message
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That's fine. I just wanted to post the solution in case someone else
needs a solution to this problem.
When it comes to simplicity, they are both two lines of code! Your if
statement will get evaluated something like a 1000 times a second as the
mouse moves around the list control (as the PreTranslateMessage gets
called for every message that gets sent to the list control). Where the
LVN_BEGINLABELEDIT message will only get sent when the label is about to
be edited. Therefore I don't think the argument that one is simpler than
the other is valid.
AliR.
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