ListView text is truncated -- how do I display the entire text of an item?

Question

Here's a picture of a System.Windows.Forms.ListView using LargeIcons

The selected item shows all it's text

e.g. The top left item shows only 11 characters of its name, it's shown fully if that's selected. How can I make it show all the text(or atleast more than 11 characters), for items that's not selected ?

Answer 1

There is DrawItem event http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.listview.drawitem.aspx. Inside this event you have access to System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawString method.

void view_DrawItem(object sender, DrawListViewItemEventArgs e)
    {
        e.Graphics.DrawString(e.Item.Text, drawFont, Brushes.Black, 
            new RectangleF(e.Item.Position.X,
                e.Item.Position.Y,
                20, 
                160));

    }

I entered some values for width/height, but you should use MeasureString or similar method. Also do not forget to set OwnerDraw=true on ListView, otherwise it will not work.