Hi,
I my program I have a CListCtrl. When the program starts, one of the items in the list control should be selected. It should stay selected until the user selects an other item.
My problem is that I can't get an item to be selected when starting the program. When the user selects an item, the item only is selected until the user clicks elsewhere in the window.

Here is what I do:

CListCtrl round_overview;
round_overview.SubclassDlgItem(IDC_ROUND_LIST,this );

round_overview.SetExtendedStyle(LVS_EX_FULLROWSELE CT | LVS_SHOWSELALWAYS );
round_overview.InsertColumn(0,station, LVCFMT_LEFT,75);
round_overview.InsertColumn(1,round_id, LVCFMT_LEFT,75);
round_overview.InsertColumn(2,emptied_out_of_total , LVCFMT_LEFT,90);

round_overview.InsertItem(round_overview.GetItemCo unt(),"");

round_overview.SetItemText(round_overview.GetItemC ount()-1,0,"test");

round_overview.SetItemState(round_overview.GetItem Count()-1, LVIS_SELECTED | LVIS_FOCUSED , LVIS_SELECTED | LVIS_FOCUSED);


round_overview.EnsureVisible(round_overview.GetIte mCount()-1, FALSE);

What have I done wrong?

Best regards
Kim Therkelsen

round_overview.SetCurSel(x); ???

where x is the zero based index number.

At least that works in my app (using the mfc app wizard(exe))

Thank you for your answer,

but I can't get that to work because setCurSel() is not a member of the CListCtrl class.

try the onther from GetCheck (get selected item), the "SetCheck()", wich is a member of CListCtrl

BOOL SetCheck(
int nItem,
BOOL fCheck = TRUE ):


Parameters
nItem
The zero-based index of a list control item.
fCheck
Specifies whether the state image of the item should be visible or not. By default, fCheck is TRUE and the state image is visible. If fCheck is FALSE, it is not visible.


More info on msdn.microsoft.com about SetCheck and the other functions of clistctrl

sorry about that, works for me though honest....

get the impression you're doing this the detailed way, which i'm sure is better, but I'm a sucker for the easy option and just created a list box with MSVC++ mfc exe wizard and added a control to it via class wizard. Doing it this way does give you SetCurSel() as a member function. I'm yet to venture out on my own without the good old wizards though....all this win32 stuff looks seriously long winded.

Whats Up.

I had that problem too.

Try round_overview.SetFocus() too keep the focus on the list.

Bye...