Thanks for posting this, Dale. You might want to right it up in a text file and submit it to the FAQ section.

Barbara

>Last week I posted a couple of messages looking for help with adding subitems to a listview control. The silence my question generated (other than Bela's) forced me to sort it out for myself, which was not all bad... though a very slow process.
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>For future reference incase anyone ever wants to do this, the process is pretty simple.
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>1. Using the Listview's property sheet, define the column headers, widths and captions, to instantiate the subitems array. This can also be done in code.
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>2. Set the listview's view setting to 3 (report view)
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>3. Press the 'apply' button several times until the settings finally stick. Sometimes I have to go in and out of the property sheet a few times before it realizes I'm serious about saving the settings.
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>4. Then in your code something like this:
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> Thisform.ListView.ListItems.Add(,"_1","First Item")
> Thisform.ListView.ListItems(1).SubItems(1) = "Column Two"
> Thisform.ListView.ListItems(1).SubItems(2) = "Column Three"
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>etc
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>5. The total number of subitems you can add is your number of defined columns - 1. If you go over you generate one of those meaningful OLE errors.
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>6. You can add images to your rows using the ImageList control and with the following code at the top of your method:
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> Thisform.ListView.SmallIcons = Thisform.ImageList.Object
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>Then add your ListItem followed by:
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> Thisform.ListView.ListItems(1).SmallIcon = "key_name_of_image"
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>That's all there is to it. Doing the column headers, widths and captions in code is also fairly straight forward. If anyone wants to know more, contact me.
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>Dale