Question

Using Delphi XE3, Listview in vsIcon mode with an imagelist assigned.

I add a few items and assign them an ImageIndex, and there is a very large spacing/margin between each image/item, how can I change that? Is it possible at all without custom drawing?

Answer 1

You can use ListView_SetIconSpacing macro

uses commctrl;
..
ListView_SetIconSpacing(ListView1.Handle, 36, 36);
ListView1.Arrange(arAlignTop);  // refresh view

Refer to the documentation, the values must include icon sizes, otherwise the icons overlap each other.

You can reset the view by sending ‘-1’ for cx and cy and the return value is the current spacing, so for instance, to decrease spacing with a certain amount, you can do:

var
  Spacing: DWORD;
begin
  Spacing := ListView_SetIconSpacing(ListView1.Handle, WORD(-1), WORD(-1));
  ListView_SetIconSpacing(ListView1.Handle,
                          LoWord(Spacing) - 10, HiWord(Spacing) - 6);
  ListView1.Arrange(arAlignTop);