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I have a gui listview with checkboxes, and I would like to disable the checkboxes from time to time without effecting their checked or unchecked status.
I recall reading something about using a -1 to indicate a disabled check, but I don't think it related to listviews.
Is this possible?

[Micahs]

I couldn't find anywhere to just disable listview checkboxes. I came up with this, though:

[BETLOG]

Interesting.
That seems to be the same behaviour I have mine doing at the moment with:
GuiControl,-Checked +NoSort,FILEINFORMATION
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GuiControl,+Checked -NoSort,FILEINFORMATION

In my case the checkbox is always checked, as it's the mechanism by which the user can delete listview entries; removing the check deletes the row.
While the script is running (it posts a constant stream of images to a website) the user can add more files to the bottom of the list, but I wanted to use the checkboxes as disabled to indicate that the associated file/row had already been posted, or was currently being posted, and therefore could not be edited or removed ...until the user paused or aborted the posting stream - which makes it easier for the processing loop, as well as visually to keep track of what's going on.

[Micahs]

Ok, so you needed to enable and disable each checkbox independently. I didn't see anything that made me believe it was possible in ahk. (I know it's possible - that may be an item for the wish list.)

[EDIT]
Kind of a hack, but you could prepend something to the first column of each row that is uploaded, like "Done - ". It wouldn't prevent someone from clicking the check, but you could always disable the click handler during processing.
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[PhiLho]

You can hide each checkbox individually. Problem: this actually changes the image at the start of the row, so it also changes the state of the checkbox, which might not be what you wanted. I give it here for reference, anyway, it might be a starting point, or useful for somebody else.
Based on Micahs' code above.

[BETLOG]

Hmm.... this certainly works... and as you said has the disadvantage of altering the checkbox original state.... but it also allows the 'invisible/disabled' checkbox to be checked/unchecked and made visible again if the user clicks where it should be (even though it's not visible).

As always, I have kept this code in my 'sure to be useful later' box of tricks, but for this script I think I will change the way my UI works, and remove this item entirely... the more i use it, and the more it proves difficult to disable checkboxes the more I see that it's not the best interface either.
I think a selection of focussed rows and a "delete" gui button and/or the DEL key will be far more intuitive in this case.

Thanks Micahs, PhiiLho.
I learn some interesting new things every time I ask a question here.

[Micahs]

This does not work reliably, but I'll post it 'cause it may be something stupid I did wrong.
It tries to disable the checkboxes in the listview. It works great and then doesn't do anything - very frustrating. When it works it stops the checkbox from changing state. Maybe you guys can do something with it, but there's probably something inherently wrong with the method, though.

[BETLOG]

Hmm. Doesn't seem to work at all for me.
It occasionally seems to work for a fraction of a second, but then the checkbox goes and does it's thing anyway.
I assume this is because of in-built assumptions, and how they differ on our respective machines:

[Micahs]

[BETLOG]

Hmm, it seems that now that I have looked into imagelists a bit more, that the do not in fact offer much more simplicity as i had asumed. It seems that I'll need to be constantly creating and destroying icon lists.