listview items dont appear

[Trucker]

Hello, In my MFC application, I am having a problem with my listview's items. They don't show. It looks like they are there because when they load the scroll bars appear. The following code is OnCreate() where I Initialize the listView: int CTopRightView::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct) { if (CView::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1) return -1; SetWindowLong(GetListCtrl().m_hWnd, GWL_STYLE, WS_VISIBLE|WS_CHILD|LVS_LIST); COLORREF c = PALETTERGB(200, 70, 130); GetListCtrl().SetBkColor(c); //creating image list for listview smallImageList.Create(16,16,false,1,0); //adding icon to image list HICON hIcon = ::LoadIcon(AfxGetResourceHandle(), MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_ICON3)); smallImageList.Add(hIcon); GetListCtrl().SetImageList(&smallImageList, LVSIL_SMALL); return 0; } And this piece of code adds an item to the listview: LV_ITEM lvItem; ::memset(&lvItem, 0, sizeof(LV_ITEM)); lvItem.mask = LVIF_TEXT|LVIF_IMAGE|LVIF_STATE; lvItem.state = 0; lvItem.stateMask = 0; lvItem.pszText = GetNTS(GetDocument()->fileName); lvItem.iItem = GetDocument()->fileCount; lvItem.iImage = 0; GetListCtrl().InsertItem(&lvItem); Anybody might know what I am doing wrong?:doh: TraileR ParK LifE 4Ever

[David Crow]

/* Trucker */ wrote: SetWindowLong(GetListCtrl().m_hWnd, GWL_STYLE, WS_VISIBLE|WS_CHILD|LVS_LIST); There's a much simpler way to do this, and you only have to do it once:

BOOL CTopRightView::PreCreateWindow(CREATESTRUCT& cs)
{
cs.style |= LVS_LIST;
return CListView::PreCreateWindow(cs);
}

What does InsertItem() return?

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[Trucker]

Hi David, InsertItem() returns a positive value if successful or -1 otherwise. TraileR ParK LifE 4Ever

[David Crow]

So is it returning -1 in this case, or is it returning a positive value yet the items still do not show up?

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"One must learn from the bite of the fire to leave it alone." - Native American Proverb

[Trucker]

it is returning a positive value but the items still do not show up. TraileR ParK LifE 4Ever