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Description

This command returns the total number of items in a list view.

Functional area

User Window

Command syntax

Syntax

getNumListViewItems userControlID

Arguments

NameTypeRequiredComments
userControlIDintegeryesThe ID of the list view to operate on

Flags

None

Return value

integer

Returns the total number of items in the list view

Examples

// Demonstrate usage of a List View User Control
int $windowID, $listViewID, $formID;

// Destroy window if it already exists
if( `windowExists "ListViewTesting"` == true )
{
destroyWindow "ListViewTesting";
}
// Create window and list view and position them
$windowID = `createWindow "ListViewTesting"`;
$formID = `getTopLevelForm $windowID`;
$listViewID = `createListView $windowID -form $formID -checkBoxes`;
setControlAnchor $listViewID "left" "left" 3;
setControlAnchor $listViewID "top" "top" 3;
setControlAnchor $listViewID "right" "right" 3;
setControlAnchor $listViewID "bottom" "bottom" 3;

// Create the columns
string $columns[3];
int $widths[3];
$columns[0] = "Name";
$columns[1] = "Age";
$columns[2] = "Gender";
$widths[0] = 150;
$widths[1] = 50;
$widths[2] = 100;
setListViewColumns $listViewID $columns $widths;

// Add some items to the list view. The text we supply is for the
// first column.
// We supply text for subsequent columns using setListViewItemText
addListViewItem $listViewID "Bob";
addListViewItem $listViewID "Mary";
addListViewItem $listViewID "Jim";
addListViewItem $listViewID "Ann";

// Set additional details
setListViewItemText $listViewID 0 1 "50";
setListViewItemText $listViewID 0 2 "Male";
setListViewItemText $listViewID 1 1 "32";
setListViewItemText $listViewID 1 2 "Female";
setListViewItemText $listViewID 2 1 "21";
setListViewItemText $listViewID 2 2 "Male";
setListViewItemText $listViewID 3 1 "44";
setListViewItemText $listViewID 3 2 "Female";

// Set the check box to true for the males.
setListViewItemCheck $listViewID 0 true;
setListViewItemCheck $listViewID 2 true;

// Change Bob's name
setListViewItemText $listViewID 0 0 "Ken";

// Select Mary and Jim
selectListViewItem $listViewID 2 true;
selectListViewItem $listViewID 1 true;

// Print out some of what we just did
print( `getListViewSelItems $listViewID` );
print( `getListViewItemText $listViewID 1 2` );
print( `getListViewItemCheck $listViewID 1` );
print( `getListViewItemCheck $listViewID 0` );
layoutForm $formID;

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