Auto resizing column widths in a CListCtrl

Question

How can I make a CListCtrl to resize the width of its columns automatically? Usually, when an item in the list gets too long, the back end disappears from view and the user manually has to resize the width of the corresponding column. Is there any way to do this by code?

Answer 1

Resizing the columns automatically is easy:

for(int i = 0;i < pListCtrl->GetHeaderCtrl()->GetItemCount();++i)
    pListCtrl->SetColumnWidth(i,LVSCW_AUTOSIZE_USEHEADER);

This will optimize the columns.

Answer 2

Do you have the "No Scroll" option on? By default ("No Scroll" option off), if an item got too long a scroll bar would appear.