MFC CListCtrl FindItem is not working

D Manivelan

I am developing Dialog based application. It has "CListCtrl" list control and one "Editbox". My requirement is when user type in editbox, automatically the entered text should get selected in the list control. For this,when i used "FindItem" , it always return -1 even the entered text available in list control. Here my code

int nPointIndex = 0;
LVFINDINFO info;
int nIndex;	
LPCTSTR lpszmyString;

info.flags = LVFI\_PARTIAL|LVFI\_STRING;
info.psz = \_T("DFC102");

nPointIndex = m\_cListCtrl.FindItem(&info,-1); //It is not working Always return -1

if( nPointIndex != LB\_ERR )
{
	m\_cListCtrl.EnsureVisible(nPointIndex, FALSE);
	m\_cListCtrl.SetSelectionMark(nPointIndex);
	m\_cListCtrl.SetItemState(nPointIndex, LVIS\_SELECTED | LVIS\_FOCUSED, IDC\_TAGBROWSER\_LIST);
	m\_cListCtrl.RedrawItems(nPointIndex, nPointIndex);
	m\_cListCtrl.UpdateWindow();
}

_Flaviu

Here is code that working for me :

LVFINDINFO FindInfo;
FindInfo.flags = LVFI\_STRING | LVFI\_PARTIAL;
FindInfo.psz = m\_sItem; // sItem = \_T("Something");
int nItem = m\_List.FindItem(&FindInfo);

perhaps you try to search in subitems of the list ?

Lost User

What are the values held in your list control; i.e. is there one that starts with "DFC102"?

speaking as ...

D Manivelan

Yes you are correct. I am searching 2nd column how to solve. please help me.

_Flaviu

I suggest you to use this[^] listcontrol, which can search in subitems (columns) too ...

Rolf Kristensen

You could insert the column you want to search in first, and then change the display order afterwards so it becomes the second column. Or just implement your own search method:

CString token = "hello";
for(int i=0;i