How to highlight a whole row in the ListView common control in a multicolumn report view mode (230049)

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To enable complete row selection, you need to send the LVM_SETEXTENDEDLISTVIEWSTYLE message to the control and specify the LVS_EX_FULLROWSELECT extended style.

Create a CListCtrl derived class, CMyListCtrl. Using ClassWizard, create a handler for the WM_CREATE message for CMyListCtrl. Then, in the definition of the handler, copy the code shown below. Now use CMyListCtrl in place of CListCtrl in your project.

int CMyListCtrl::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct) 
{
   if (CListCtrl::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1)
      return -1;

   DWORD dwStyle = ::SendMessage(m_hWnd,LVM_GETEXTENDEDLISTVIEWSTYLE,0,0);
   dwStyle |= LVS_EX_FULLROWSELECT;
   ::SendMessage(m_hWnd,LVM_SETEXTENDEDLISTVIEWSTYLE,0,dwStyle);

// or you could also use

// ListView_SetExtendedListViewStyle(
//            m_hWnd, 
//            ListView_GetExtendedListViewStyle(m_hWnd)
//            | LVS_EX_FULLROWSELECT);


// or you could also use

// SetExtendedStyle(GetExtendedStyle() | LVS_EX_FULLROWSELECT);

   return 0;
}

				

The code above works only for dynamically created list controls. For controls created on the dialog resource, similar code should be placed in the OnInitDialog function.