ListView on kill focus in mfc

Question

I have a list view in a dialog. When I select some item inside list it's become selected. When I kill focus from list (for example, clicked at another window), the selection disappears. How to make it grayed(inactive) but leave in list?

Answer 1

There is a style called LVS_SHOWSELALWAYS. Set it at runtime using:

DWORD dwStyle = m_list.GetExtendedStyle();
dwStyle |= LVS_SHOWSELALWAYS;
m_list.SetExtendedStyle(dwStyle);