BUG: ListView and Item Spacing

• Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic, 16-bit and 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

The spacing between items in the ListView control changes, getting closer together when you change the BorderStyle property after adding listitems to the listview control. The problem occurs for Icon and SmallIcon views when the items include images.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

1. Start Visual Basic or from the File menu, choose New Project (ALT, F,

       N).
   

2. Add a Listview control to Form1.

3. Add an ImageList control to Form1.

4. Place the following code to the form load event of form1.

   Dim i As Integer ListView1.Arrange = lvwAutoLeft

   ImageList1.ListImages.Add , , LoadPicture("c:\windows\cars.bmp") Set ListView1.Icons = ImageList1 Set ListView1.SmallIcons = ImageList1

   For i = 1 To 20

          ListView1.ListItems.Add , , "Item" & i, 1, 1
   

   Next

   ListView1.BorderStyle = 0

5. Run program. Result: The items are all bunched together.

WORKAROUND

You can work around this problem by setting the Arrange property to lvwAutoLeft or lvwAutoTop after setting the BorderStyle property and before adding listitems to the listview control.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be an issue in Visual Basic version 4.0 on Windows NT. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.