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How to hide a column of text in a CListCtrl?

I have a CListCtrl in my dialog that displays user information. One of the columns displays the user password. Is there a way to either a) hide a column so someone cannot resize it and view it, or b) show this column's text as asterisks (password text).

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naveenkohli

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naveenkohli

The place to store your passowrd information would be lParam member of LVITEM structure of your item.

Vinayak Kumbar

Hi,

If U want that information in ListCtrl only, then subclass that control to ur class derived from CListCtrl and map the OnNotify() function and wrtie the following code

BOOL CDontResize::OnNotify(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam, LRESULT* pResult)
{

      HD_NOTIFY *pHDN = (HD_NOTIFY*)lParam;
      {
            if((pHDN->hdr.code == HDN_BEGINTRACKW || pHDN->hdr.code == HDN_BEGINTRACKA)
                        && (pHDN->iItem == 2) || (pHDN->iItem == 3) || (pHDN->iItem == 4) ||
                        (pHDN->iItem == 5) || (pHDN->iItem == 6) || (pHDN->iItem == 7) || (pHDN->iItem == 8))
            {
                  *pResult = TRUE;
                  return TRUE;
            }
      }
      return CListCtrl::OnNotify(wParam, lParam, pResult);
}

Note that I have done it foe col 2 to 8(no resizing)

Try it out.