ListView TextAlign broken for 1st column?

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Hello,

I'm using the VS 2005 Express Edition for C#. In the GUI designer, when I
try to set the text alignment to anything except Left for the first column of
a ListView, it jumps back to the left anyway, even thought choices of Center
and Right are shown in the drop-down. I've even tried modifying the code
itself after the fact but it merely ignores it. I remember this was a
problem in the original version of the product but I thought it would have
been fixed by now. Are there any workarounds, or am I simply doing something
wrong? Previously I just created a dummy 1st column with 0 width, but that's
a real kluge.

Thanks,
Ray

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Hi,

It is by design.

<msdn
url="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.columnheader.textalign.aspx">
Due to a limitation in the underlying control, this property has no effect
on the first column in the ListView control, which is always aligned to the
left. To work around this limitation in Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0,
you can handle the ListView.DrawColumnHeader event and paint the column
header yourself.
</msdn>

"Ray Mitchell" wrote:

Hello,

I'm using the VS 2005 Express Edition for C#. In the GUI designer, when I
try to set the text alignment to anything except Left for the first column of
a ListView, it jumps back to the left anyway, even thought choices of Center
and Right are shown in the drop-down. I've even tried modifying the code
itself after the fact but it merely ignores it. I remember this was a
problem in the original version of the product but I thought it would have
been fixed by now. Are there any workarounds, or am I simply doing something
wrong? Previously I just created a dummy 1st column with 0 width, but that's
a real kluge.

Thanks,
Ray

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Siva,

Thanks for the response. I figured as much - call a "bug" a "feature" and
charge more (although the Express edition is free!). Hopefully this
"feature" will be deprecated in a later version. It seems that they should
remove the "Center" and "Right" choices from the TextAlign menu for that
colum if they're not going to support them, however. I'm just learning this
stuff so I can't really complain, though, since so many things work so nicely.

Ray

"Siva M" wrote:

Hi,

It is by design.

<msdn
url="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.columnheader.textalign.aspx">
Due to a limitation in the underlying control, this property has no effect
on the first column in the ListView control, which is always aligned to the
left. To work around this limitation in Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0,
you can handle the ListView.DrawColumnHeader event and paint the column
header yourself.
</msdn>

"Ray Mitchell" wrote:

Hello,

I'm using the VS 2005 Express Edition for C#. In the GUI designer, when I
try to set the text alignment to anything except Left for the first column of
a ListView, it jumps back to the left anyway, even thought choices of Center
and Right are shown in the drop-down. I've even tried modifying the code
itself after the fact but it merely ignores it. I remember this was a
problem in the original version of the product but I thought it would have
been fixed by now. Are there any workarounds, or am I simply doing something
wrong? Previously I just created a dummy 1st column with 0 width, but that's
a real kluge.

Thanks,
Ray