Themes!

Not the www2 theme though - a couple of XP theme glitches.

First up is the ListView control in .NET 2. If you switch on gridlines and scroll with the arrows on the scrollbar, it leaves the gridlines behind as nasty artefacts. This is what I came up with - and it appears to work.

Create a new class that inherits from ListView. Then add to it this code:

        /// <summary>
        /// Hacky override to fix the garbage lines.
        /// </summary>
        protected override void WndProc(ref Message m) {
            if (m.Msg == 0xF) { // 0xF is WM_PAINT
                GridLines = false;
                GridLines = true;
            }
            base.WndProc(ref m);
        }

...compile and that new class should appear in your toolbox. Use that instead of the normal ListView control.

If anyone could come up with a better solution, I'd love to hear it...

The other theme bug appeared last night in XP.


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I guess it can't remember if it's using Windows Classic or Windows XP styling?