Moving or resizing a ListView created with _GUICtrlListView_Create

[TimRude]

How does one move or resize a ListView control that was created using _GUICtrlListView_Create?

This doesn't work:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <GuiListView.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

; Create GUI with a _GUICtrlListView control
Global $hGUI = GUICreate("_GUICtrlListView", 700, 500, -1, -1, $WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW)
Global $hListView = _GUICtrlListView_Create($hGUI, "", 100, 100, 500, 300, BitOR($LVS_ICON, $LVS_SINGLESEL, $LVS_SHOWSELALWAYS, $LVS_SORTASCENDING))
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW, $hGUI)

MsgBox(0, "Note intial ListView position (centered on the GUI)", "Press OK to try to move ListView to bottom right corner of the GUI window.")

GUICtrlSetPos($hListView, 200, 200)
MsgBox(0, "GUICtrlSetPos($hListView, 100, 100)", "Why didn't it move?")

GUICtrlSetPos($hListView, 100, 100, 600, 400)
MsgBox(0, "GUICtrlSetPos($hListView, 100, 100, 600, 400)", "We can't change the size either.")

; Loop until the user exits the GUI
Do
Until GUIGetMsg() = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

GUIDelete()

 

[mikell]

GuiCtrlSetPos works using IDs not handles

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <GuiListView.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

; Create GUI with a _GUICtrlListView control
Global $hGUI = GUICreate("_GUICtrlListView", 700, 500, -1, -1, $WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW)
Global $hListView = _GUICtrlListView_Create($hGUI, "", 100, 100, 500, 300, BitOR($LVS_ICON, $LVS_SINGLESEL, $LVS_SHOWSELALWAYS, $LVS_SORTASCENDING))
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW, $hGUI)

MsgBox(0, "Note intial ListView position (centered on the GUI)", "Press OK to try to move ListView to bottom right corner of the GUI window.")

WinMove($hListView, "", 200, 200) ; or ControlMove($hListView, "", "", 200, 200)
Sleep(1000)
WinMove($hListView, "", 100, 100, 600, 400)

Do
Until GUIGetMsg() = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

GUIDelete()

 

Edited October 17, 2022 by mikell
typo

[TimRude]

@mikell Thanks! I tried both WinMove and ControlMove as you suggested and both worked perfectly well to move and/or resize the listview.

Obviously I overlooked the important difference between a Control ID and a Handle, and that the built-in GUICtrlCreateListView function returns the identifier (controlID) of the new control, whereas the _GUICtrlListView_Create returns the handle to the ListView control.

That's a distinction I will pay very careful attention to from now on. 

And logically that would mean then that any UDF-based controls like this are incompatible with the GUI Control update functions.

Thanks for the education.