prevent listview to lose selected item

Question

I\'m currently working on a listview in winform c# and everytime I click on an empty space on the listview, the selected item is lost.

Answer 1

You have to inherit from the ListView class and do some low-level message processing

class ListViewThatKeepsSelection : ListView
{
    protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)
    {
        // Suppress mouse messages that are OUTSIDE of the items area
        if (m.Msg >= 0x201 && m.Msg <= 0x209)
        {
            Point pos = new Point(m.LParam.ToInt32() & 0xffff, m.LParam.ToInt32() >> 16);
            var hit = this.HitTest(pos);
            switch (hit.Location)
            {
                case ListViewHitTestLocations.AboveClientArea:
                case ListViewHitTestLocations.BelowClientArea:
                case ListViewHitTestLocations.LeftOfClientArea:
                case ListViewHitTestLocations.RightOfClientArea:
                case ListViewHitTestLocations.None:
                    return;
            }
        }
        base.WndProc(ref m);
    }
}