Culture prevents listview columns autosizing?

Happy new year all,

I have discovered a problem in the Compact Framework that can only be
reproduced by running the same code against an English and German
emulator/device.

I am setting ColumnHeader.Width to -1 and -2, to find the best fit for each
column. Setting the width to -1/-2 does autosize the column on my English
devices/emulator, but fails completely when run against a German emulator
(the width is only set to 0). Example of the code:

foreach (ColumnHeader ch in listView.Columns)
{
// get width by column header text
ch.Width = -2;
int w = ch.Width;

// now get longest item width
ch.Width = -1;

// is this less than the column header width
if (ch.Width < w)
{
// yes - then use the column header width
ch.Width = w;
}
}

More example code at end of post...

There is seemingly no rhyme or reason for this, and I cannot say I expect to
get much more than confirmation back from you guys that this is an issue, but
that at least would make me feel sane!!

Rob

--

More example test case code:

public Form1()
{
this.mainMenu1 = new System.Windows.Forms.MainMenu();
this.listView1 = new System.Windows.Forms.ListView();

this.listView1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(8, 8);
this.listView1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(224, 184);
this.listView1.HeaderStyle = ColumnHeaderStyle.Nonclickable;
this.listView1.View = View.Details;

this.Controls.Add(this.listView1);
this.Menu = this.mainMenu1;
this.Text = "Form1";

this.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.Form1_Load);
}

private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
{
ColumnHeader ch = new ColumnHeader();
ch.Text = "Column" + i;
listView1.Columns.Add(ch);
}

foreach (ColumnHeader ch in listView.Columns)
{
// get width by column header text
ch.Width = -2;
int w = ch.Width;

// now get longest item width
ch.Width = -1;

// is this less than the column header width
if (ch.Width < w)
{
// yes - then use the column header width
ch.Width = w;
}
}
}

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Culture prevents listview columns autosizing?

scenedamaged
David,

Thanks for your help here, I apologise for not including this first time round.

Visual Studio 2003 v7.1.3088
.NETCF 1.0.5000

PPC2002 Emulator images came from:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=25f4de97-ae80-477a-9df1-496b85b3d3e3&DisplayLang=en

The issue can also be reproduced on a Windows Mobile 5 device.

Is it possible for the version of the framework to differ between devices, if Visual Studio is deploying the compact framework libraries as it deploys the application

Regards,

Robert
pixelstuff
Can you describe the versions of everything you are using

E.G.

Visual Studio 2005

.NETCF 2.0 Sp1

German localized emulator image acquired from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=EEC33AE3-C129-4C25-ABAA-18E8E842178F&displaylang=en&Hash=%2bHLVKEo4eEHDjpkAVGKL3%2ffEbXyxli144Qkjkyn6lR2e%2bs5m1DXHI6BSdvbg0EaxmQbVrWvUN2VYeki1i53Krg%3d%3d

Etc.

I tried your repro on our .NETCF 2.0 on a Windows Mobile 5.0 german emulator and it did not reproduce. One possible difference between your english device and your german device is that you may have a different version of .NETCF installed.

David Wrighton

.NET Compact Framework
Culture prevents listview columns autosizing?

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