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Editing item programmatically

Normally an edit is initiated when a user clicks on an item that already has the focus. Suppose, you want to start the edit when the user clicks a button, here is the code to start the edit. m_listctrl.SetFocus(); m_listctrl.EditLabel(nItem); You should remember to SetFocus() if the listview control does not already have the focus. […]

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Normally an edit is initiated when a user clicks on an


item that already has the focus. Suppose, you want to start the edit when


the user clicks a button, here is the code to start the edit.

m_listctrl.SetFocus();
m_listctrl.EditLabel(nItem);

You should remember to SetFocus() if the listview control does not already
have the focus. Of course, for this to work, the listview control should
have the LVM_EDITLABEL style.

 

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