VB6 / WinAPI: How can I get the hwnd of a ListView.ListItem?

Question

I have a VB6 application with a ListView (MSCOMCTL.OCX). I need to get the window handle (hwnd) for a listviewitem, or preferably (if something like that exists) - of a specific subitem.

I know I can get the handle for the column headers using FindWindowEx and looking for the class msvb_lib_header, but I don't know how to get the handle for the item. Spy++ shows a msvb_lib_header window as the child of the listview, but does not show any other windows.

Answer 1

List view items and subitems are not window handles. They are internal children of the list view, exposed using the LVM_GETITEM and LVM_SETITEM messages and the LVITEM structure. (Subitems use the same interface; the iSubItem member of LVITEM would be nonzero in this case.)

Answer 2

ListView.ListItem object has not hwnd.

You should search ListView by class name, next use SendMessage() to send the message LVM_GETITEM and using the LVITEM structure to get info about items:

LVM_GETITEM message (Windows)

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb774953(v=vs.85).aspx

LVITEM structure (Windows)

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb774760(v=vs.85).aspx

this reference page may help you:

List-View Control Reference (Windows) https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff485973(v=vs.85).aspx