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FIX: ListView and Item Spacing

Article ID: 143406

Article Last Modified on 12/9/2003

Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 16-bit Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 32-Bit Enterprise Edition

This article was previously published under Q143406

SYMPTOMS

The spacing between items in the ListView control changes, getting closer together when you change the BorderStyle property after adding listitems to the listview control. The problem occurs for Icon and SmallIcon views when the items include images.

RESOLUTION

You can work around this problem by setting the Arrange property to lvwAutoLeft or lvwAutoTop after setting the BorderStyle property and before adding listitems to the listview control.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in Visual Basic 5.0.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

Start Visual Basic or from the File menu, choose New Project (ALT, F, N).
Add a Listview control to Form1.
Add an ImageList control to Form1.

Place the following code to the form load event of form1.

   Dim i As Integer
   ListView1.Arrange = lvwAutoLeft

   ImageList1.ListImages.Add , , LoadPicture("c:\windows\cars.bmp")
   Set ListView1.Icons = ImageList1
   Set ListView1.SmallIcons = ImageList1

   For i = 1 To 20
       ListView1.ListItems.Add , , "Item" & i, 1, 1
   Next

   ListView1.BorderStyle = 0

Run program. Result: The items are all bunched together.

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