Re: ListView Grouping/Row Order

From:
"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:52:28 -0700
Message-ID:
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"Jonathan Wood" <jwood@softcircuits.com> wrote in message
news:OIYxSfOLKHA.3632@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

I'm finding that when I use grouping in a listview control, the iItem
value is ignored when I call ListView_InsertItem, and each row is instead
always appended as the last item in the specified group.

I need to be able to control the order of items within each group, yet I
cannot find any documentation of this behavior or how I might address it.

Perhaps someone is better at Google than I am?


Sorry to say, I don't think it is supported. For example,
LVM_MOVEITEMTOGROUP does not have a way to set the index to put the item
within the group, either. And there is a bug report at
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=115345
that has been closed as "Will not fix".

Maybe as a workaround you could delete all the items within the group and
re-insert them into the proper order? It seems the advanced listview
control features are poorly documented and/or not implemented:

http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/03/06/544257.aspx
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/csharpgeneral/thread/39681a70-d992-4046-ad7e-21a2e33791b1

(Even though it talks about the .NET listview control, this is a wrapper
around the native Windows listview control.)

-- David

-- David
 

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