Disabling Highlighting on a ListView

Question

Hello,
I'm making a program to display a GUI with multiple icons showing the state of devices connected to a master device, so far It's going great except the Item I used to store them in, ListView, has an issue, When selected the icon and text highlights in blue. Are there any way to disable the highlighting without disabling the functionality to select the icons.

Thank you,

Connor Frayne

Answer 1

Hi @Connor Frayne ,

You can set the OwnerDraw property of the ListView to True. Then handle the DrawItem event to custom draw the items.

Private Sub ListView1_DrawItem(sender As Object, e As DrawListViewItemEventArgs) Handles ListView1.DrawItem
    If e.Item.Selected Then
        e.Graphics.FillRectangle(Brushes.White, e.Bounds)
    Else
        e.DrawBackground()
    End If
    
    e.Graphics.DrawString(e.Item.Text, e.Item.Font, Brushes.Black, e.Bounds.Left, e.Bounds.Top)
    
    If e.Item.ImageIndex >= 0 Then
        Dim img As Image = ListView1.LargeImageList.Images(e.Item.ImageIndex)
        e.Graphics.DrawImage(img, e.Bounds.Left, e.Bounds.Top)
    End If
End Sub

Best Regards.

Jiachen Li

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