I wrote a small piece of code that would help select individual cells in a
CListCtrl. This is not supported currently by the MFC.
When the user clicks on the cell in the CListCtrl it draws a rect. around
that cell indicating that is the cell selected by the user. This might not
be the best solution but a work around if anyone would like to use this.
//Individual cell selection in CLIstCtrl CListCtrl::OnClick(...) { int column; CRect m_rect; //the function below is provided in CListCtrl inPlace editing int index = GetRowColumnIndex(point, &column); if(index == -1)return; int offset = 0; for(int i = 0; i < column; i++) offset += GetColumnWidth(i); //Get the rectangle of the label and the icon GetItemRect(index, &m_rect, LVIR_BOUNDS); m_rect.left += offset + 4; //Get the columnWidth of the selected column m_rect.right = m_rect.left + GetColumnWidth(column); Update(index); CClientDC dc(this); //this is the pointer of the current view dc.DrawFocusRect(m_rect); }