Re: Excel Like Headers in List Control

From:

"Doug Harrison [MVP]" <dsh@mvps.org>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 01:41:44 -0500

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On 7 Aug 2006 23:23:27 -0700, "nightcrawler" <pranavdes@gmail.com> wrote:

Ya, I am looking for headers/labels on left...so grid control is the
only way? I don't want the header for as such any functional purpose
but just for display. Can't I then add some sort of buttons that appear
as header in far left of the View?
My Idea was to convert the 1st ( or 0th column, whichever way u like
it) of List control to Buttons. And make them appear as a left header
of the spreadsheet. I have tried and look for some way of adding a
button in List Control but it appears that list control only accepts
Images and text.

List controls certainly can have child windows, but using buttons for row
headers is not a good idea, because buttons take focus, don't drag-select
properly, don't look the same as the column headers, are expensive in terms
of resources, etc. Every spreadsheet and decent grid control draws the
entire contents of its window, including the headers, which typically
aren't child windows.

I had a look at Chris Maunder's Control Grid which is really great and
which will be very much useful for me ( I plan to implement other
features later (sort, search, select etc). But as I am learning things
(newbie :) ) I would like to do them on my own. That way I would learn
a lot of new things as I go along.

I think the main things you'll learn from using a list control as the basis
for your grid control are the reasons why you shouldn't use a list control
as the basis for a grid control. :)

--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP