[v2] ListView EmptyText

[kczx3]

Here's a quick little demo on how to set the empty text to be displayed in a ListView control. Requires Vista+. See LVN_GETEMPTYMARKUP and LVN_LINKCLICK. The LVM_RESETEMPTYTEXT message is undocumented.

Uses AHK v2-a100.

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global count := 0

main := GuiCreate()

btn := main.addButton(, "Increase count")
btn.OnEvent("click", () => SendMessage(LVM_RESETEMPTYTEXT := 0x1054, 0, 0, LV.hwnd))

LV := main.addListView("w600 h400", "Column 1|Column 2")

LV.OnNotify(LVN_GETEMPTYMARKUP := -187, "setEmptyText")
LV.OnNotify(LVN_LINKCLICK := -184, () => ToolTip("Clicked!"))

main.show()
return

setEmptyText(ctrl, l) {
    text := "<a>My empty text!`nCount = " count++ "</a>"
    ; see LVN_GETEMPTYMARKUP
    
    ; 0 displays the text in the upper-left corner while 1 displays it centered both vertically and horizontally
    NumPut(0x1, l, A_PtrSize * 3, "UInt")
    
    ; put our string in the buffer
    StrPut(text, l + A_PtrSize * 3 + 4, StrLen(text))
    
    return true ; you must return true in order to set the text.  This can be used to your advantage to return false to not change it possibly
}