DesktopListbox - Hiding the hi-light

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Hiding the ListBox hi-light by returning True on the CellPressed event disables DoublePressed.
Is there way to suppress DesktopListbox hi-lighting without causing side effects to other events?

The example shows the dilemma.

HiLightLB.zip (8.9 KB)

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Do your own drawing in the PaintCellBackground event is probably your best bet as I’d bet you want to use SelectedRowIndex. Otherwise, you just set SelectedRowIndex to -1. Or you can store the SelectedRowIndex in a property of your own then set it to -1 and reference your property value.

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Thanks! Paint… events is the answer and I don’t see any side effects:

Function PaintCellBackground
g.DrawingColor=Color.Clear
Return True
End Function

Function PaintCellText
g.DrawingColor=Color.TextColor
End Function

I tried your second option setting SelectedRowIndex to -1 and it came close, except that the row briefly highlights when first clicked.
Me.SelectedRowIndex=-1 is in CellPressed, SelectionChanged, and MouseDown

This alone suppresses the background, but also makes the Text in the row turn white.
Function PaintCellBackground
g.DrawingColor=Color.Clear
End Function

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Update: Just learned that hiding the DesktopListbox row hi-light only requires this much to work:

Function PaintCellBackground
  Return True  ’ results in no row hi-light
End Function

Function PaintCellText
  g.DrawingColor=Color.TextColor  ’ must give the text some color
End Function