Help Needed - How to draw Gridlines in ListBox (Non MFC) Win32

Hi all.. i'm having a problem with the Listbox control in a Window. I need to display Gridlines(Horizontical lines) in the listbox control.

I Searched the MSDN Documentation and found that, the LVS_EX_GRIDLINES style setting can do it for me.. and also, it must be used in conjunction with LVS_REPORT style.

I tried, but was in vein.. nothing happened.. i used the ListView_SetExtendedStyleView() API and also tried out using the SendMessage() API... And that too failed.

I searched google for sample codes, but didnt find any useful.. there are soo many codes and articles on MFC, but i dont know MFC.. i need only Win32 code.

I will post my code snippet here..

Code:

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icce.dwSize = sizeof(icce);
    icce.dwICC = ICC_LISTVIEW_CLASSES;
    InitCommonControlsEx(&icce);

        hList = CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,"listbox","MyListBox...",WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|LVS_REPORT ,5,40,480,290,appWindow, (HMENU)1003,hInst,(LPVOID)lpParam);
       
        ListView_SetExtendedListViewStyleEx(hList, LVS_EX_GRIDLINES, LVS_EX_GRIDLINES);

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Now, whats wrong with the code, where am i err-ing?

I use this code inside a function named RenderList() and calls it from the WM_CREATE message handler of the Main window(Parent) hWnd.

I will apreciate all your valuable inputs..

Thanks in advance, and i'll vote you for sure if you helps me

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LVS_REPORT as LVS_EX_GRIDLINES styles are for listview control (having class name "SysListView32") and not for listbox (having class name "ListBox").

Thanks for your most valuable reply, ovidiucucu.

Actually that will be the problem.. i will try it out, and come back.

I'll reply if it does works or not..

[Edit]

Yes! It worked fine....

Thanks once again... :)

One more help required...

I have added some columns into the SysListView32 control

Code :

Code:

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LVCOLUMN hCtlListView1Column;
                        ZeroMemory(&hCtlListView1Column, sizeof(LVCOLUMN));
                        hCtlListView1Column.mask = LVCF_FMT | LVCF_WIDTH | LVCF_TEXT;
                        hCtlListView1Column.fmt = LVCFMT_LEFT;
                        hCtlListView1Column.cx = 100;
                        hCtlListView1Column.pszText = "Column 1";
                        ListView_InsertColumn(hList, 0, &hCtlListView1Column);
                        hCtlListView1Column.pszText = "Column 2";
                        ListView_InsertColumn(hList, 1, &hCtlListView1Column);

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Now, please tell me how can i set text in the columns? I tried with SendMessage() API

and passed LB_ADDSTRING... but it didnt get work.. :(

Thanks in advance...

Again, LB_ADDSTRING is a message for lisbox and not for listview (this two are quite different controls).
To a listview you have to send LVM_xxx messages.

Here is a brief examples which fills a listview with two lines and two columns.

Code:

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    // add two columns
    LVCOLUMN lvc = {0};

    lvc.mask = LVCF_TEXT|LVCF_FMT|LVCF_WIDTH|LVCF_SUBITEM;
    lvc.pszText = _T("Column 0"); // text
    lvc.fmt = LVCFMT_LEFT;        // left align text
    lvc.cx = 100;                // column width
    lvc.iSubItem = 0;            // subitem
    ListView_InsertColumn(hList, 0, &lvc);

    lvc.pszText = _T("Column 1"); // text
    lvc.iSubItem = 1;            // subitem
    ListView_InsertColumn(hList, 1, &lvc);

    LVITEM lvi = {0};

    // add two "empty" items ("rows" for a report style listview)
    lvi.iItem = 0; // item index
    ListView_InsertItem(hList, &lvi);
    lvi.iItem = 1;
    ListView_InsertItem(hList, &lvi);

    // set items/subitems text
    ListView_SetItemText(hList, 0, 0, _T("line 0, col 0"));
    ListView_SetItemText(hList, 0, 1, _T("line 0, col 1"));
    ListView_SetItemText(hList, 1, 0, _T("line 1, col 0"));
    ListView_SetItemText(hList, 1, 1, _T("line 1, col 1"));

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Read MSDN and use MS Grid controls instead

@ ovidiucucu

Thanks again bro.. your help is very very appreciative. thanks for sparing your valuable time to prepare a small snippet.

Actually i wansn't awared about the SysListView32 control. Now i learnt many things about that control.. and surely i read MSDN and got more API's related to this control.

@ Carl666

can you please tell more detail about MS Grid? Sorry, i didnt find a match in the MSDN Documentation. can you atleast tell me the corect classname? is it advanced than the listview control?

Thanks. :)