Using ListView controls

A ListView control allows you to display items and icons in a variety of arrangements. You can display large icon or small icon freeform lists, or you can display a vertical static list. You can also display additional information about each list item by associating additional columns with each list item:

Figure 6-1: ListView control with additional columns

A sample list displays three columns. From left to right, the columns list compositions, each with text and a small icon, and then text only with the name of the album and the artists for each.

ListView controls consist of ListView items, which are stored in an array. Each ListView item consists of a:

Label The name of the ListView item
Index The position of the ListView item in the control
Picture index The number that associates the ListView item with an image

Depending on the style of the presentation, an item can be associated with a large picture index and a small picture index.
Overlay picture index The number that associates the ListView item with an overlay picture
State picture index The number that associates the ListView item with a state picture

For more information about ListView items, picture indexes, and presentation style, see the User’s Guide.

You add ListView controls to windows in the same way you add other controls: select ListView from the Insert>Control menu and click the window.

Adding ListView items

In the painter Use the Items property page for the control to add items.

To add items to a ListView:

Select the Items tab in the Properties view for the control.
Enter a name and a picture index number for each of the items you want to add to the ListView.

Setting the picture index for the first item to zero clears all the settings on the tab page.

For more information about adding pictures to a ListView control, see “Adding pictures to ListView controls”.

In a script Use the AddItem and InsertItem functions to add items to a ListView dynamically at runtime. There are two levels of information you supply when you add items to a ListView using AddItem or InsertItem.

You can add an item by supplying the picture index and label, as this example shows:

lv_1.AddItem ("Item 1", 1)

or you can insert an item by supplying the item’s position in the ListView, label, and picture index:

lv_1.InsertItem (1,"Item 2", 2)

You can add items by supplying the ListView item itself. This example in the ListView’s DragDrop event inserts the dragged object into the ListView:

listviewitem lvi

This.GetItem(index, lvi)

lvi.label = "Test"

lvi.pictureindex = 1

This.AddItem (lvi)

You can insert an item by supplying the ListView position and ListView item:

listviewitem l_lvi

//Obtain the information for the

//second listviewitem

lv_list.GetItem(2, l_lvi)

//Change the item label to Entropy

//Insert the second item into the fifth position

lv_list.InsertItem (5, l_lvi)

lv_list.DeleteItem(2)

Adding pictures to ListView controls

PocketBuilder stores ListView images in four image lists:

Small picture index
Large picture index
State picture index
Overlay picture index

You can associate a ListView item with these images when you create a ListView in the painter, or you can use the AddItem and InsertItem at runtime.

However, before you can associate pictures with ListView items, they must be added to the ListView control.

In the painter To add pictures, use the control’s Pictures and Items property pages.

To add pictures to a ListView control:

Select the Large Picture, Small Picture, or State tab in the Properties view for the control.

Overlay images You can add overlay images only to a ListView control in a script.
Select an image from the stock image list, or use the Browse button to select a bitmap, cursor, or icon image.
Select a color from the PictureMaskColor drop-down menu for the image.

The color selected for the picture mask appears transparent in the ListView.
Select a picture height and width for your image.

This controls the size of the image in the ListView.

Dynamically changing image size The image size can be changed at runtime by setting the PictureHeight and PictureWidth properties before you add any pictures when you create a ListView. For more information about PictureHeight and PictureWidth, see the online Help.
Repeat the procedure for the:
- Number of image types (large, small, and state) you plan to use in your ListView
- Number of images for each type

In a script Use the functions in Table 6-3 to add pictures to a ListView image.

**Table 6-3: Functions that add pictures to a ListView image**
Function	Adds a picture to this list
AddLargePicture	Large image
AddSmallPicture	Small image
AddStatePicture	State image

Adding large and small pictures This example sets the height and width for large and small pictures and adds three images to the large picture image list and the small picture image list:

//Set large picture height and width

lv_1.LargePictureHeight=32

lv_1.LargePictureWidth=32

//Add large pictures

lv_1.AddLargePicture("c:\ArtGal\bmps\celtic.bmp")

lv_1.AddLargePicture("c:\ArtGal\bmps\list.ico")

lv_1.AddLargePicture("Custom044!")

//Set small picture height and width

lv_1.SmallPictureHeight=16

lv_1.SmallPictureWidth=16

//Add small pictures

lv_1.AddSmallPicture("c:\ArtGal\bmps\celtic.bmp")

lv_1.AddSmallPicture("c:\ArtGal\bmps\list.ico")

lv_1.AddSmallPicture("Custom044!")

//Add items to the ListView

lv_1.AddItem("Item 1", 1)

lv_1.AddItem("Item 2", 1)

lv_1.AddItem("Item 3", 1)

Adding overlay pictures Use the SetOverLayPicture function to use a large picture or small picture as an overlay for an item. This example adds a large picture to a ListView, and then uses it for an overlay picture for a ListView item:

listviewitem lvi_1

int li_index

//Add a large picture to a ListView

li_index = lv_list.AddLargePicture &

   ("c:\ArtGal\bmps\dil2.ico")

//Set the overlay picture to the

//large picture just added

lv_list.SetOverlayPicture (1, li_index)

//Use the overlay picture with a ListViewItem

lv_list.GetItem(lv_list.SelectedIndex (), lvi_1)

lvi_1.OverlayPictureIndex = 1

lv_list.SetItem(lv_list.SelectedIndex (), lvi_1)

Adding state pictures This example uses an item’s state picture index property to set the state picture for the selected ListView item:

listviewitem lvi_1

lv_list.GetItem(lv_list.SelectedIndex (), lvi_1)

lvi_1.StatePictureIndex = 2

lv_list.SetItem(lv_list.SelectedIndex (), lvi_1)

Deleting ListView items and pictures

You can delete items from a ListView one at a time with the DeleteItem function, or you can use the DeleteItems function to purge all the items in a ListView. Similarly, you can delete pictures one at a time with the DeleteLargePicture, DeleteSmallPicture, and DeleteStatePicture functions, or purge all pictures of a specific type by using the DeleteLargePictures, DeleteSmallPictures, and DeleteStatePictures functions.

This example deletes one item and all the small pictures from a ListView:

int li_index

li_index = This.SelectedIndex()

This.DeleteItem (li_index)

This.DeleteSmallPictures ()