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This is a small class which permits to sort list controls. It works “substituting” every original item data with a small class (preserving the value), sort it using the standard (fast!) list control way, and then putting the things right back. Step 1: implementing the class The class will contain two subclasses to manage numeric […]

One of my friends refered me to your site. I like it! I have looked for an easy solution to sort a List control and found several recepies on your site. Unfortunately, there was no nice, elegant, and general solution there, so I took “Sort list (numeric/text) using callback” article by Appolonio and redid it. […]

The only time the list view control does some sorting is when inserting an item into the list. Then too, the control should have the LVS_SORTASCENDING  or the LVS_SORTDESCENDING  style. The new item is inserted in its proper place and the other items remain in the same relative order. If the user edits an item, […]

If you dont want to allow the users to sort the list by clicking on the header, you can use the style LVS_NOSORTHEADER. However, if you do want to allow sorting, you do not specify the LVS_NOSORTHEADER. The control, though, does not sort the items. You have to handle the HDN_ITEMCLICK notification from the header […]

 Download Source Code and Example This class handles sorting of multiple columns in a listctrl at the same time. The way it works is simple. When you click on a column, the column number is stored in an array, the array is cleared each time you click on a column without holding control. Telling the […]

The list view control does not provide any visual feedback on whether the list is sorted. To give feedback to the users of our application, we can use the owner draw feature of the header control and display a triangle pointing downwards or pointing updwards, indicating whether the list is sorted in the ascending or […]

The Sorting mechanism ( SortItems() ) of CListCtrl, does not provide us with the row indices inside the Comparison function. Without the row indices, the easiest way to get to our data inside the function is to store the text data in memory and set it’s pointer as the LPARAM for each row. If the […]

The list view control has two directly supported mechanism for sorting the items in the list. One of them is to use the styles – LVS_SORTASCENDING or LVS_SORTDESCENDING when creating the control. Any item inserted into the list is then automatically inserted in a sorted order. Although this does not involve any extra programming work, […]

Here is an extremely simple implementation for sorting, which is probably sufficient for most needs. The code determines which column in the report was clicked, converts the text data for that column into item data, then lets the list control perform its standard sorting. The code below sorts columns of integers; sorting text is even […]

NOTE: Lot of people have pointed me to the LVS_EX_FULLROWSELECT style. This style is supported in the new control (with IE4) and will be directly supported by VC++ by downloading a few files from the MS web site. This should be available by end of Oct’97. In the meantime you can use the ModifyStyleEx() function. […]

Add a WM_LBUTTONDOWN handler in the CListCtrl derived class. Code for OnLButtonDown() is given below. Before calling HitTest(), the x coordinate is changed to 2. This forces the point being tested to fall on the first column. A value of x below 2 fails (it is presumably occupied by the border ). Note that the […]

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 […]