Winforms ListView - Stop automatically checking when double clicking

Question

How do I make a listview not automatically check an item when I double click it?

I can try hooking into the MouseDoubleClick event, and set the Checked property to false

Answer 1

If you don't want to turn of the DoubleClick messages completely, but just turn off the autocheck behaviour. You can instead do the following:

public class NoDoubleClickAutoCheckListview : ListView
{
    private bool checkFromDoubleClick = false;

    protected override void OnItemCheck(ItemCheckEventArgs ice)
    {
        if (this.checkFromDoubleClick)
        {
            ice.NewValue = ice.CurrentValue;
            this.checkFromDoubleClick = false;
        }
        else
            base.OnItemCheck(ice);
    }

    protected override void OnMouseDown(MouseEventArgs e)
    {
        // Is this a double-click?
        if ((e.Button == MouseButtons.Left) && (e.Clicks > 1)) {
            this.checkFromDoubleClick = true;
        }
        base.OnMouseDown(e);
    }

    protected override void OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
    {
        this.checkFromDoubleClick = false;
        base.OnKeyDown(e);
    }
}