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I have a need for a checkbox on a listview column other than the first. I've found I can create a listview with the checkbox and then move the column to a different position via my mouse, dragging Col 1 to the 4th column position, for instance. However, I can't find a way to accomplish the same thing programmatically.

Is the only way to accomplish this going to be feeding the GUI an emulated mouse click and drag, or am I missing something obvious?

Sorry if this is covered somewhere. I've read the help file extensively and searched the forums with no luck.

PhiLho · Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:44 am Post subject:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/commctls/listview/messages/lvm_setcolumnorderarray.asp
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wtg · Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 63 Location: Louisville, KY

Thanks for pointing that out to me PhiLho. It's a bit more than I was ready for, but I think I'm getting close.

Can you see what's wrong with my test program below? I've never used SendMessage before (and have only used AHK for about a week) and so I've had to scrounge the help file and the forums to figure out what to do. I'm sure I'm probably making a newbie mistake, but I can't see why this won't reorder column 1 and 2.

PhiLho · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:04 am Post subject:

Some errors: wParam is the number of elements in the array, not the size of the buffer in bytes; cap = 3*4 is a classical error, it should be cap := 3*4; AFAIK, SendMessage doesn't take a GUI control variable name (it is not a GUI command), you have to put the ClassNN.

I have made a function out of your code:

wtg · Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 63 Location: Louisville, KY

PhiLho,

Thank you so much... you really helped clarify things.

I didn't understand how to provide the handle to the list control. If I understand correctly, it's SysListView321 because this was the first list added to the screen, and the second added would be SysListView322 and so on. Is there a function of any kind, or can one be written, that would return SysListView32n using just the list variable name? I mean, AHK commands that manipulate the list using it's variable name are essentially converting those references to the appropriate SysListView32n reference behind the scenes, right?

The cap assignment problem was something I introduced after the fact cleaning up code to post, and using it as the # of elements in the SendMessage command is a bug I introduced while trying to figure out why my call wasn't working. It's one of those changes that could have taken me another day to figure out once I got the list controls handle right, or may not have gotten them both right at the same time without your help.

By the way, you used the LVM_REDRAWITEMS command to make the columns redraw. Is there an advantage to doing this over a simple GuiControl, +Redraw, TestList?

Thanks again!

PhiLho · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:37 pm Post subject:

wtg · Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 63 Location: Louisville, KY

PhiLho · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:19 pm Post subject:

Yes, I got it the way around... (I shown how to get a variable name, not the ClassNN.) Sorry. but at least it pushed you in the right direction. Smile

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

adamrgolf · Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 362

adamrgolf · Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 362

My bad -- the code needed to be as follows to test (duh):

wtg · Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 63 Location: Louisville, KY

Glad you got it sorted out.