CListCtrl

See www.codeguru.com / head for "listview control" - "class with
full row highlighting, dragable headers, sorting".

I think this should help you :)

Assuming m_list is the CListCtrl object you want this for, do :-

ListView_SetExtendedListViewStyle( m_list.m_hWnd, LVS_EX_FULLROWSELECT ) ;

I added your code (Answer2000), and it compiled fine. But I still have the exact same result. Only the text iself is highlighted. Again, my list box is of type CListCtrl. I have it set to small icon mode. I did not derive a class from it... simple declared it like:
CListCtrl mylistctrl;
I changed it to the small icon mode in the resource editor. And then I call your function:
ListView_SetExtendedListViewStyle(mylistctrl.m_hWnd, LVS_EX_FULLROWSELECT);

And it didn't seem to have any effect.

You need to use the details mode (instead of small icon) - this is LVS_REPORT instead of LVS_SMALLICON

When you use details mode, you can have only column (or more if you like), but you must create it using InsertColumn, and probably want to set the column width of this one column using SetColumnWidth.

The reason that the full row select option doesn't work in small icon mode, is that the layout of icons isn't necessary underneath each other (the user can layout the icons in different ways).

When in the LVS_REPORT style, you can turn of the column header by also using the LVS_NOCOLUMNHEADER style if you want.

I hope this makes more sense now!

Ok... we are almost there. ;-) I am trying to insert a column like you suggested... but am getting nothing. I get a grey blank header, and the items that should have been added, aren't there. Could you provied code that shows how to insert a column, set it so that it is the width of the entire control (so it fills up the list box...) and makes it so that the entire column is selected when it's clicked? Thanks...

Thanks!

Damnit... I tried it and same deal. I used the following code, and all I get is a grey header row, and none of my list items. The header shouln't be there, and it's not adding my list items.

CRect rect;
int nWidth;

pListCtrl->GetWindowRect(&rect);
nWidth = rect.Width();
nWidth -= ::GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXVSCROLL);

pListCtrl->SetExtendedStyle(LVS_REPORT | LVS_NOCOLUMNHEADER);
pListCtrl->InsertColumn(0, "Test", LVCFMT_LEFT, nWidth);

// Contacts is an array of items to be inserted into my list.

for(int j = 0; j < Contacts.GetSize(); j++)
{
pListCtrl->InsertItem(j, Contacts.GetAt(j).sNick);
}

What gives?

Damnit... I tried it and same deal. I used the following code, and all I get is a grey header row, and none of my list items. The header shouln't be there, and it's not adding my list items.

CRect rect;
int nWidth;

pListCtrl->GetWindowRect(&rect);
nWidth = rect.Width();
nWidth -= ::GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXVSCROLL);

pListCtrl->SetExtendedStyle(LVS_REPORT | LVS_NOCOLUMNHEADER);
pListCtrl->InsertColumn(0, "Test", LVCFMT_LEFT, nWidth);

// Contacts is an array of items to be inserted into my list.

for(int j = 0; j < Contacts.GetSize(); j++)
{
pListCtrl->InsertItem(j, Contacts.GetAt(j).sNick);
}

What gives?

pListCtrl->InsertColumn(0, "Test", LVCFMT_LEFT, nWidth);

ASSERT( nWidth > 0 ) ; // just a double check for me !
pListCtrl->SetColumnWidth( 0, nWidth ) ; // <--- you missed this line out!

SetExtendedStyle is not a VC5 function (at least not in the help) - but I assume this is okay

I think we're there now ?

Nope. I added

pContactListCtrl->SetColumnWidth(0, nWidth);

and the nWidth is up in the 300s... so that's not the problem.

What else could be the problem???

Oh... and I do have VC6.

Why don't you try the classes from codeguru?
They also provide some extra functionality, like dragable headers
and automated sorting. It's worth a look ...