Question

In my situation there is a textbox that I am typing in it and then there is a listView that jumps to the item I am typing in the text box so the FOCUS should always be in the text box so I can continue typing! But as I said when it is selecting the item in the ListView I want that item to be highlighted with BLUE background as other standard highlights in Windows forms. Is there a way to do this?

thanks.

Answer 1

Have a look at setting the ListViewItemBackColor, you could change it as they type so it looks as though it has been selected, when it reality all it has is a blue background.

Or you could try setting the colour of the background to blue AND selecting the item and then setting the focus back to the textbox so they can continue typing, although it may not happen quickly enough so key presses may be lost but you’d have to try it and see how well it works.