ListView Problem

[Hunter Kirk]

I'm having a rather tedious problem with the listview control in visual
basic.net

I am trying to achive two simple procedures, I thought :)

1. I have only one column populated but still there is an extra empty column
listed to the right of the header. Is there no way to specify that I only
want a single column. Or is there a way to hide that unpopulated extra
column that I don't want.

2. How exactly does one reference the text or value of the selected sub
item. I would like to pass this text in my case to a function but I'm unable
to get it.

Sorry for the I'm sure simple questions, but I have googled my brains out
and been over the docs and can find nothing to point me in the right
direction.

Thanks in advance

--
Hunter Kirk
Twilight Technologies, L.L.C.
hu****@twilightech.com
http://www.twilightech.com

[Hunter Kirk]

k well I kinda hacked out a solution for hiding the column buy just setting
my single column's width to that of the list view. seems kind of a hack way
to do things, especially with resizing seems I have to update the width of
the column with the listview anytime the listview is resized. now if I can
just get that darned text from the selected subitem :)
"Hunter Kirk" <hu****@twilightech.com> wrote in message
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I'm having a rather tedious problem with the listview control in visual
basic.net

I am trying to achive two simple procedures, I thought :)

1. I have only one column populated but still there is an extra empty column listed to the right of the header. Is there no way to specify that I only
want a single column. Or is there a way to hide that unpopulated extra
column that I don't want.

2. How exactly does one reference the text or value of the selected sub
item. I would like to pass this text in my case to a function but I'm unable to get it.

Sorry for the I'm sure simple questions, but I have googled my brains out
and been over the docs and can find nothing to point me in the right
direction.

Thanks in advance

--
Hunter Kirk
Twilight Technologies, L.L.C.
hu****@twilightech.com
http://www.twilightech.com

[Jim Rogers]

You seem to have a "catch 22" situation. My
understanding of ListView columns is that you need one
column for each sub-item, in addition to the main item's
column.

[Hunter Kirk]

by sub item I mean the items under the single column, is that the correct
verbage ?

basically I just want to grab the selected index of the item or subitem ?
not sure which to call it :)

I've tried doing this by using e.Index passed to the
listview.seleteditems(e.Index).text but alas e.Index isn't supported the way
I'm calling. I maybe on the wrong path so if anyones got an idea it would be
very welcome.

"Jim Rogers" <jc*******@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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You seem to have a "catch 22" situation. My
understanding of ListView columns is that you need one
column for each sub-item, in addition to the main item's
column.

[Jim Rogers]

Entries in the first column of a ListView are called
items. Any other columns contain sub-items to the
corresponding item in the first column.

I believe the following code example is what you are
trying to get:

Private Sub ListView1_Click( _
ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
Handles ListView1.Click

Dim collItems As ListView.SelectedListViewItemCollection
collItems = Form1.ListView1.SelectedItems
Dim intItemIdx As Int32 = collItems.Item(0).Index