ListViewItem.SubItems.BackColor ???

[sps itsec46]

Hi guys, is it anyhow possible to change the backcolor of a specific subitem in a listview? Or is it only possible to change the color of the whole item with ListViewItem.BackColor? Likely it won't work without deriving from ListView... :sigh: Regards, mYkel

[ian mariano]

This Codeproject article, http://www.codeproject.com/listctrl/selectentirerow.asp?target=LVS%5FOWNERDRAWFIXED[^], shows some of what you need, but it's in C++/MFC, not C#! Basically you need to add the LVS_OWNERDRAWFIXED style to your derived ListView, and handle the [WM_DRAWITEM](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/commctls/comboboxes/comboboxreference/comboboxmessages/wm_drawitem.asp) windows message and the corresponding DRAWITEMSTRUCT, which contains the iItemID of the item to draw. You can add the style to by overriding the ListView's CreateParams property and intercept the WM_DRAWITEM in your overriden DefWndProc. The MSDN says this about LVS_OWNERDRAWFIXED: "The owner window can paint items in report view. The list-view control sends a WM_DRAWITEM message to paint each item; it does not send separate messages for each subitem. The iItemData member of the DRAWITEMSTRUCT structure contains the item data for the specified list-view item. "

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