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Smashery
Smashery

Reputation: 59673

Up and Down icons in CListCtrl

I have a CListCtrl with multiple columns, all of which are able to be sorted by. I would like to add up and down icons so that it is clear which column is currently sorted upon, and in which direction; much like Windows Explorer. My thought was to add a solid up/down arrow to the column name. I tried using the extended ASCII chars 30/31; but instead of showing the arrows, I got boxes (the "character not found" character); and using the unicode version, I got a question mark instead of the character.

Any suggestions as to how I could accomplish this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2119

Answers (1)

user1152584
user1152584

Reputation: 51

You can use the newer CMFCListCtrl class or the CMFCHeaderCtrl class. There, you can set the sort column and the sort direction.

Try 

myListCtrl.SetSortColumn(nCol, bAscending);

or 

CMFCHeaderCtrl &headerCntrl = myListCtrl.GetHeaderCtrl();
headerCntrl.SetSortColumn(nCol, bAscending);

Upvotes: 5

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