I spent a couple of hours trying to solve where the problem is with adding icons to the listView title. The code below works fine on Win 7 32Bit and Windows XP 32Bit. However, I now changed the machine to Win 7 x64, and it was hell with code.
Below code works when sorting is called in a column, it adds an up or down icon depending on the order and resets any icons in the header in other columns. However, on Win7 x64 it does not change the up / down icon (it just always uses the first one) and never clears the icons from other columns (when sorting is taken out of it).
public class ListViewColumnSorter : IComparer {
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)] public struct HDITEM {
public Int32 mask;
public Int32 cxy;
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPTStr)] public String pszText;
public IntPtr hbm;
public Int32 cchTextMax;
public Int32 fmt;
public Int32 lParam;
public Int32 iImage;
public Int32 iOrder;
} ;
public const Int32 HDI_FORMAT = 0x0004;
public const Int32 HDI_IMAGE = 0x0020;
public const Int32 HDI_DI_SETITEM = 0x0040;
public const Int32 HDF_LEFT = 0x0000;
public const Int32 HDF_RIGHT = 0x0001;
public const Int32 HDF_CENTER = 0x0002;
public const Int32 HDF_JUSTIFYMASK = 0x0003;
public const Int32 HDF_STRING = 0x4000;
public const Int32 HDF_BITMAP_ON_RIGHT = 0x1000;
public const Int32 HDF_IMAGE = 0x0800;
public const Int32 LVM_FIRST = 0x1000;
public const Int32 LVM_GETHEADER = LVM_FIRST + 31;
public const Int32 HDM_FIRST = 0x1200;
public const Int32 HDM_SETIMAGELIST = HDM_FIRST + 8;
public const Int32 HDM_GETIMAGELIST = HDM_FIRST + 9;
public const Int32 HDM_GETITEM = HDM_FIRST + 11;
public const Int32 HDM_SETITEM = HDM_FIRST + 12;
[DllImport("user32", EntryPoint = "SendMessage")] private static extern IntPtr SendMessageINT(IntPtr Handle, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam);
[DllImport("user32", EntryPoint = "SendMessage")] private static extern IntPtr SendMessageITEM(IntPtr Handle, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, ref HDITEM lParam);
public static IntPtr SendMessage(IntPtr Handle, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam) {
return SendMessageINT(Handle, msg, wParam, lParam);
}
public static IntPtr SendMessage(IntPtr Handle, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, ref HDITEM lParam) {
return SendMessageITEM(Handle, msg, wParam, ref lParam);
}
private int ColumnToSort;
private SortOrder OrderOfSort;
private CaseInsensitiveComparer ObjectCompare;
public ListViewColumnSorter() {
ColumnToSort = 0;
OrderOfSort = SortOrder.None;
ObjectCompare = new CaseInsensitiveComparer();
}
public int Compare(object x, object y) {
int compareResult;
ListViewItem listviewX = (ListViewItem) x;
ListViewItem listviewY = (ListViewItem) y;
string s1 = listviewX.SubItems.Count > ColumnToSort ? listviewX.SubItems[ColumnToSort].Text : String.Empty;
string s2 = listviewY.SubItems.Count > ColumnToSort ? listviewY.SubItems[ColumnToSort].Text : String.Empty;
int i1;
int i2;
DateTime date1;
DateTime date2;
if (int.TryParse(s1, out i1) && int.TryParse(s2, out i2)) {
compareResult = ObjectCompare.Compare(i1, i2);
} else if (DateTime.TryParse(s1, out date1) && DateTime.TryParse(s2, out date2)) {
compareResult = ObjectCompare.Compare(date1, date2);
} else {
compareResult = ObjectCompare.Compare(s1, s2);
}
if (OrderOfSort == SortOrder.Ascending) {
return compareResult;
} else if (OrderOfSort == SortOrder.Descending) {
return (-compareResult);
} else {
return 0;
}
}
public int SortColumn {
set { ColumnToSort = value; }
get { return ColumnToSort; }
}
public SortOrder Order {
set { OrderOfSort = value; }
get { return OrderOfSort; }
}
public static void columnClick(ListView varListView, ref ListViewColumnSorter lvwColumnSorter, object sender, ColumnClickEventArgs e) {
ListViewHelper.enableDoubleBuffer(varListView);
if (e.Column == lvwColumnSorter.SortColumn) {
if (lvwColumnSorter.Order == SortOrder.Ascending) {
lvwColumnSorter.Order = SortOrder.Descending;
} else {
lvwColumnSorter.Order = SortOrder.Ascending;
}
} else {
lvwColumnSorter.SortColumn = e.Column;
lvwColumnSorter.Order = SortOrder.Ascending;
}
varListView.Sort();
}
public static void columnClick(ListView varListView, ref ListViewColumnSorter lvwColumnSorter, object sender, ColumnClickEventArgs e, ImageList headerImages) {
IntPtr hHeader = SendMessage(varListView.Handle, LVM_GETHEADER, IntPtr.Zero, IntPtr.Zero);
SendMessage(hHeader, HDM_SETIMAGELIST, IntPtr.Zero, headerImages.Handle);
SortOrder Order = SortOrder.Descending;
HDITEM hd = new HDITEM {
mask = HDI_IMAGE | HDI_FORMAT
};
for (int i = 0; i < varListView.Columns.Count; i++) {
hd.fmt = HDF_STRING;
hd.iImage = -1;
SendMessage(hHeader, HDM_SETITEM, new IntPtr(i), ref hd);
}
hd.fmt = HDF_LEFT | HDF_STRING | HDF_BITMAP_ON_RIGHT;
ListViewHelper.enableDoubleBuffer(varListView);
if (Order != SortOrder.None) {
hd.fmt |= HDF_IMAGE;
}
if (e.Column == lvwColumnSorter.SortColumn) {
if (lvwColumnSorter.Order == SortOrder.Ascending) {
hd.iImage = 0;
lvwColumnSorter.Order = SortOrder.Descending;
} else {
hd.iImage = 1;
lvwColumnSorter.Order = SortOrder.Ascending;
}
} else {
hd.iImage = 1;
lvwColumnSorter.SortColumn = e.Column;
lvwColumnSorter.Order = SortOrder.Ascending;
}
SendMessage(hHeader, HDM_SETITEM, new IntPtr(e.Column), ref hd);
varListView.Sort();
}
}
I use it in the ColumnClick event:
private void listViewKlienci_ColumnClick(object sender, ColumnClickEventArgs e) {
ListViewColumnSorter.columnClick(listViewKlienci, ref lvwColumnSorterKlienci, sender, e, headerIcons);
}
where headerIcons is an ImageList that contains several icons.
I also add:
private ListViewColumnSorter lvwColumnSorterKlienci = new ListViewColumnSorter();
MainForm :
listViewKlienci.ListViewItemSorter = lvwColumnSorterKlienci;
, ? x64:/
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