CheckedListBox Bold Item

[John]

Is there a way to make the font for the selected item(s) bold in a
CheckedListBox?

Thanks,
John

 

[Larry Lard]

Is there a way to make the font for the selected item(s) bold in a
CheckedListBox?

Yes, but it's a bit of work. CheckedListBox doesn't expose a DrawMode
property, so easy owner-drawing won't work. Then I thought you could
maybe just subclass and override OnDrawItem, changing the Font when the
item is selected and calling back to base.OnDrawItem, but looking at the
source of CheckedListBox.OnDrawItem shows that it always uses the
control's font.

So the only thing I can see left to do is to subclass, override
OnDrawItem, then do *all* the painting yourself. See this mess for
suggestions, or google 'checkedlistbox ondrawitem'

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