Know the number of characters from the size of the vb6 listview column

Question

I have an api in vb6 responsible for generating reports from components of type listview. Turns out, the report is composed of a table with several columns that are mirrored in Listview. The measure of the column in the report is given by the number of characters it contains... example:

Column2 = Column2 has a size of 7 characters maximum.

However, we give the report column size based on the size of the text displayed in the listview column. That is, if I reduce the size of the column there in listivew and the text becomes apparent as "Colu" instead of "Coluna2" then I want to send the new size "Colu" = 4 to my report.

But it is difficult to have this measure... as for example, I could know how many characters are being displayed inside that column in the listview? Whereas it has been resized by the user and may be cutting some text in half.

Answer 1

You’ll have to use the windows API for via Sendmessage, question directly to Handle of Listview these measurements. VB6 does not natively have interfaces for these properties.

I had the same problem in a project, once I found the link or the code, put