No. The problem is the width can be much more than the text in it actually needs. If I want to center the checkbox I need the width of what the user sees, not the width of the window rect. Best regards, Sebastian ------------------------------------------- My website: http://www.hartwork.org

I still don't know how to achieve this. Any help is very appreciated! Thanks in advance, Sebastian ------------------------------------------- My website: http://www.hartwork.org

thanks for you quick reply! i am using LVM_GETNEXTITEM now. i stumbled over the line "The specified item is itself excluded from the search" on MSDN, and modified my code so it works with top-down deletion: iWalk = SendMessage( _hView, LVM_GETNEXTITEM, iWalk - 1, LVNI_SELECTED ); ------------------------------------------- My website: http://www.hartwork.org