> I've attached 2 JPG's of a dialog containing a ListView. In both > there are gridlines artifacts or something being left behind by the > ListView Control.
what version of VB? what OS? What version of the common controls? any subclassing or other "unusual" code handling the control or the forms? Are these always there or do they appear after some sequence of events?
What you show isn't common for the VB5 or VB6 listviews so without more details it's going to be hard for people to try to duplicate it.
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> I've attached 2 JPG's of a dialog containing a ListView. In both there > are > gridlines artifacts or something being left behind by the ListView > Control. > I'm curious whether anyone else has ever seen this and whether anyone has > any suggestions. The one display almost looks like the ListView is trying > to display the icon portion of the first column. But there is no > ImageList > and no Icon property setup on this ListView. I may be able to put > together > a sample of this if needed.
Does it only happen on one computer or on several? If several, do all of these have the same video card and driver? Do they all have the same version of Windows? If only WinXP (and happens on all WinXP systems), are you using a manifest file? What version of the ListView (or rather Windows Common Controls) are you using? Are any other programs running (particularly any program using DirectX video components such as DirectDraw, Direct3D, etc.)?
IOW, you really need to provide more information.
Graphic anomalies like that are frequently due to the video driver. Try updating the video driver, or even using a different, compatible, video driver (maybe the generic SVGA driver) and see if the problem goes away. I'm not saying this is actually the problem, but it's probably something worth looking into. I doubt very much it's anything to do with the ListView control or probably anything with your code, though. Being the gambler that I am, my money would be on the video driver.
> Graphic anomalies like that are frequently due to the video driver. Try > updating the video driver, or even using a different, compatible, video > driver (maybe the generic SVGA driver) and see if the problem goes away. > I'm not saying this is actually the problem, but it's probably something > worth looking into. I doubt very much it's anything to do with the > ListView control or probably anything with your code, though. Being the > gambler that I am, my money would be on the video driver.
I'm not so sure. I've gone through a few computers in my job (with different video cards every time) and one of my programs has had display issues with list views regardless of the machine. I'm willing to believe that there really is some issue between VB and the list view control in certain circumstances. I've never gone out of my way to try to fix it.
>> Graphic anomalies like that are frequently due to the video driver. Try >> updating the video driver, or even using a different, compatible, video >> driver (maybe the generic SVGA driver) and see if the problem goes away. >> I'm not saying this is actually the problem, but it's probably something >> worth looking into. I doubt very much it's anything to do with the >> ListView control or probably anything with your code, though. Being the >> gambler that I am, my money would be on the video driver.
> I'm not so sure. I've gone through a few computers in my job (with > different video cards every time) and one of my programs has had display > issues with list views regardless of the machine. I'm willing to believe > that there really is some issue between VB and the list view control in > certain circumstances. I've never gone out of my way to try to fix it.
It's quite possible you're right. Still, I think it's not a bad idea to at least rule out the video driver. As I said, I never claimed this was indeed the problem. It's just something worth checking into.
Maybe I've been lucky, but I've never had any problems (at least reported to me) about display problems with a ListView (be it the 5.0 or the 6.0 version) that WEREN'T related to the video driver (IOW, updating the driver, and in RARE cases going back to an older version of the driver or using an alternate/compatible driver, fixed the problem). But anything's possible and I certainly wouldn't rule out that a ListView has display/update problems. But in troubleshooting such a problem, you need to rule out whatever you can. That always needs to be the first step.
As soon as I get a chance to post a sample that exhibits the problem I will. I can tell you the program runs on 3 entirely different PC's with different video adapters and produces the same display anomalies so I think I can at least say that it is my opinion that it's not the video adapter or drivers.
> >> Graphic anomalies like that are frequently due to the video driver. Try > >> updating the video driver, or even using a different, compatible, video > >> driver (maybe the generic SVGA driver) and see if the problem goes away. > >> I'm not saying this is actually the problem, but it's probably something > >> worth looking into. I doubt very much it's anything to do with the > >> ListView control or probably anything with your code, though. Being the > >> gambler that I am, my money would be on the video driver.
> > I'm not so sure. I've gone through a few computers in my job (with > > different video cards every time) and one of my programs has had display > > issues with list views regardless of the machine. I'm willing to believe > > that there really is some issue between VB and the list view control in > > certain circumstances. I've never gone out of my way to try to fix it.
> It's quite possible you're right. Still, I think it's not a bad idea to at > least rule out the video driver. As I said, I never claimed this was indeed > the problem. It's just something worth checking into.
> Maybe I've been lucky, but I've never had any problems (at least reported to > me) about display problems with a ListView (be it the 5.0 or the 6.0 > version) that WEREN'T related to the video driver (IOW, updating the driver, > and in RARE cases going back to an older version of the driver or using an > alternate/compatible driver, fixed the problem). But anything's possible and > I certainly wouldn't rule out that a ListView has display/update problems. > But in troubleshooting such a problem, you need to rule out whatever you > can. That always needs to be the first step.
I think you may try to create a new project and build a project with listview from the scratch to see what cause the problem. If you can reproduce it with a form with just a listview, can you attatch the whole reproduce sample in the newsgroup? If you have concern, you can send to me directly via removing the "online" from my email address.
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I determined what the problem is for anyone interested. Take a look at the code snippet below. In this sample I am doing a column auto resize of the last column. What you saw in the Listview JPG I attached is the result of this. Now there were obviously a set of properties that I had setup for this listview that control how I do my display. The solution to the problem was to refresh "lv.Refresh" the listview after I sent the message to tell the listview to resize. If anyone is interested in the code sample that creates the problem I will gladly provide it to them. I'm not sure if issueing this refresh is what is required, but in my cause it was.
Public Sub lvAutosizeMax(lv As ListView) Dim col2adjust As Long
> As soon as I get a chance to post a sample that exhibits the problem I will. > I can tell you the program runs on 3 entirely different PC's with different > video adapters and produces the same display anomalies so I think I can at > least say that it is my opinion that it's not the video adapter or drivers.
> > >> Graphic anomalies like that are frequently due to the video driver. Try > > >> updating the video driver, or even using a different, compatible, video > > >> driver (maybe the generic SVGA driver) and see if the problem goes > away. > > >> I'm not saying this is actually the problem, but it's probably > something > > >> worth looking into. I doubt very much it's anything to do with the > > >> ListView control or probably anything with your code, though. Being the > > >> gambler that I am, my money would be on the video driver.
> > > I'm not so sure. I've gone through a few computers in my job (with > > > different video cards every time) and one of my programs has had display > > > issues with list views regardless of the machine. I'm willing to believe > > > that there really is some issue between VB and the list view control in > > > certain circumstances. I've never gone out of my way to try to fix it.
> > It's quite possible you're right. Still, I think it's not a bad idea to > at > > least rule out the video driver. As I said, I never claimed this was > indeed > > the problem. It's just something worth checking into.
> > Maybe I've been lucky, but I've never had any problems (at least reported > to > > me) about display problems with a ListView (be it the 5.0 or the 6.0 > > version) that WEREN'T related to the video driver (IOW, updating the > driver, > > and in RARE cases going back to an older version of the driver or using an > > alternate/compatible driver, fixed the problem). But anything's possible > and > > I certainly wouldn't rule out that a ListView has display/update problems. > > But in troubleshooting such a problem, you need to rule out whatever you > > can. That always needs to be the first step.
From the MSDN, Refresh Method (ActiveX Controls) Forces a complete repaint of a form or control.
Commonly we did not recommend to call the API against the control directly which may break the common normal behavior. For you scenario, maybe the sendmessage set the column style but did not redraw the entire listview.
So I think the refresh is necessary. If you still have any concern please feel free to post here together with the while reproduce sample.
Best regards,
Peter Huang Microsoft Online Partner Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
