.Net Windows Forms ListView ColumnHeader width tip. Set it to -1 or -2.
A negative Width value??
I can hear it now:
Are you insane Mladen?? Do you want our apps going around looking ugly??
Well... of course I do! It means i can go around fixing them for big bucks :))
But joking aside, -1 and -2 width values are very usefull.
Setting the width to be -1 means that the column will have the width of the longest item in it.
Setting the width to be -2 means that the column will have the width of the column heading.
Pretty cool, no?
Legacy Comments
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Jeff
2007-08-29 |
re: .Net Windows Forms ListView ColumnHeader width tip. Set it to -1 or -2. Are you insane ???? This is madness! |
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Mladen
2007-08-29 |
re: .Net Windows Forms ListView ColumnHeader width tip. Set it to -1 or -2. hmm... so now i'm not sure if you're being serious or not, jeff. :) |
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Jeff
2007-08-29 |
re: .Net Windows Forms ListView ColumnHeader width tip. Set it to -1 or -2. Sorry, I couldn't resist! :) |
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DuncanS
2007-08-30 |
re: .Net Windows Forms ListView ColumnHeader width tip. Set it to -1 or -2. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.columnheader.width(VS.71).aspx |
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Mladen
2007-08-30 |
re: .Net Windows Forms ListView ColumnHeader width tip. Set it to -1 or -2. i knew i forgot to put in something... thanx Duncan! |
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Eric W. Bachtal
2007-09-01 |
re: .Net Windows Forms ListView ColumnHeader width tip. Set it to -1 or -2. It seems little jewels like this pop up and get forgotten again every other year. I posted about it back in 2003, including doing the same with API calls in VB6, which isn't important, except that there was a comment left there that may prove helpful to someone. http://ewbi.blogs.com/develops/2003/10/resizing_listvi.html Specifically, the commenter had a problem with the autosizing of the last column not happening, which was only solved by setting the width to -2 *after* filling the ListView with data. Not sure if this has been resolved in later versions of .NET. Thanks for shining light again on this obscure setting! |