Question

How do you disable additional checkbox selections/deselections without sacrificing the functionality of the ListView? I know you can call: ListView.Enabled = False, but that also disables any scrolling within it.

For example: I have a timer that starts a backup based on the Listview items that are checked. After a certain time, I don’t want the end-user to be able to click on any of the checkboxes within the listview (so I have a set number of items to backup), but I do want them to be able to scroll the list while the backup is being performed. I tried this:

Private Sub clboxOptions_ItemChecked(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.ItemCheckedEventArgs) Handles clboxOptions.ItemChecked

If backupStarted = True Then
   If e.Item.Checked = True Then
      e.Item.Checked = False
   Else
      e.Item.Checked = True
End If

But this doesn’t seem to work for me.
Thanks!
JFV

Answer 1

I found out what my issue was. I was using the ‘ItemChecked’ instead of the ‘ItemCheck’ Method. The below code works for me:

Private Sub clboxOptions_ItemCheck(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.ItemCheckEventArgs) Handles clboxOptions.ItemCheck
    Try
        If backupStarted = True Then
            If e.CurrentValue <> e.NewValue Then
                e.NewValue = e.CurrentValue
            Else
                e.NewValue = e.NewValue
            End If
        End If
End Sub