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    CListCtrl

    Dear all

    I create a dialog and add a List control which is a icon list control.

    i can selete several items if i press Ctrl or Shift.

    now, i want several items being seleted and set focus when a user open this dialog.
    this means if Item 1,2,3 is seleted, then user close dialog. next time when user open the dialog, the Item1,2,3 is seleted and set focus.

    **I just want to know how to set several items' focus, when a user open dialog.

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    You should be able to use CListCtrl::SetItemState to set mutiple items as selected (you would have to call it once for each item you want to select). As for focus, only one item can have the focus, but you can use CListCtrl::SetItemState to do that as well.

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    Hi there

    I used SetItemState, but only the last item will be seleted and get focus;

    Here is my code

    for(int i=0;i<=10;i++)
    {
    m_ImageList.SetItemState(i,LVIS_SELECTED,LVIS_SELECTED);
    }

    Thanks

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    Make sure your listctrl is set to "Always Show Selection", and it should work.

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    Here is quick example I tried:
    Dialog app with CListCtrl (with Always Show Selection = TRUE, and View set to list). CListCtrl member variable added (m_List)
    In initdialog under the todo comments I added following:
    Code:
    	// TODO: Add extra initialization here
    	m_List.SetFocus();
    	CString sLabel;
    	// add 10 items to list
    	for(int i = 0;i < 9; i++)
    	{
    		sLabel.Format("Item%d", i);
    		m_List.InsertItem(i, sLabel);
    	}
    	// select 1st 5 items
    	for(int i = 0;i < 5; i++)
    		m_List.SetItemState(i, LVIS_SELECTED, LVIS_SELECTED );
    	// set focus to first item
    	m_List.SetItemState(0, LVIS_FOCUSED , LVIS_FOCUSED  );
    	
    	// return false because I set focus to a control
    	return false;  // return TRUE  unless you set the focus to a control
    When running the program the 1st 5 items are selected and the 1st item has focus, so it should work for you.
    Last edited by RussG1; February 24th, 2004 at 12:49 AM.

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    Thank you for your help, i am going to try it now.

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    Originally posted by wow9999
    I used SetItemState, but only the last item will be seleted and get focus;
    You should also make sure that your list control doesn't have the LVS_SINGLESEL style set.

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    The third Parameter of SetItemState is a mask value and LVIS_SELECTED is not a mask value.
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    Originally posted by Sam Hobbs
    The third Parameter of SetItemState is a mask value and LVIS_SELECTED is not a mask value.
    The mask parameter for SetItemState is a stateMask and LVIS_SELECTED can be used for this parameter to tell SetItemState that you want only the items selection bits to be changed, so you can use LVIS_SELECTED as a mask value in this case.

    Russ

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    This actually is documented.
    From MSDN:
    nState
    New values for the state bits.
    nMask
    Mask specifying which state bits to change.
    You need a mask to be able to "drop" a particular state, like in:
    Code:
    m_List.SetItemState(item, 0, LVIS_SELECTED);
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    Yes, I agree the docs are a bit lacking here, but it does say the mask value for SetItemState specifies which state bits to change. LVIS_SELECTED is a state bit, whereas LVIF_IMAGE is not. If you dig a little deeper and look at the version that takes a LVITEM structure as a parameter, and lookup the LVITEM structure itself, you will find one of the parameters is stateMask, and the decription of that is as follow:

    Value specifying which bits of the state member will be retrieved or modified. For example, setting this member to LVIS_SELECTED will cause only the item's selection state to be retrieved.
    This member allows you to modify one or more item states without having to retrieve all of the item states first. For example, setting this member to LVIS_SELECTED and state to zero will cause the item's selection state to be cleared, but none of the other states will be affected.


    From this I am making a small leap in thinking that the same thing goes for the mask value of SetItemState since it says the mask value only specifies which state bits to change (as does the decription of stateMask), and that the docs should probably say stateMask rather than mask for that parameter, to be more clear (a list of valid mask value's would be nice too).

    If you wanna to be completely safe then just do it using an LVITEM structure instead, but personally I think that this is what is meant for the mask value for SetItemState, otherwise you really have nothing to use for the mask value in SetItemState, and the function is almost useless.

    Russ

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    Originally posted by RussG1
    The mask parameter for SetItemState is a stateMask and LVIS_SELECTED can be used for this parameter to tell SetItemState that you want only the items selection bits to be changed, so you can use LVIS_SELECTED as a mask value in this case.

    Russ
    Yes.

    I am sorry that I was confused.
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