Description

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

Functional area

User Window

Command syntax

Syntax

getNumListViewItems userControlID

Arguments

Name	Type	Required	Comments
`userControlID`	integer	yes	The 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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