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The last three versions of Windows have all had translucent highlight and hover effects in Windows Explorer listview:

Using a theme explorer I see that the ListItem has no state that matches what i see in Windows:

Is there a:

• class


• part


• state

that represents the ListView in Windows?

For compatibility reasons ListView still has the old style look by default. DrawThemeBackground(htheme, hdc, LVP_LISTITEM, ...) will simply draw a solid rectangle with border, for all item states, as shown in above image. GetSysColor should be used to get the right colors for this listview.

A call to SetWindowTheme(hwnd, L"Explorer", NULL) will load the new theme data and draw the list items similar to Explorer. Example:

LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hwnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)

 switch(msg)
 
 case WM_CREATE:
 SetWindowTheme(hwnd, L"Explorer", NULL);
 break;
 case WM_PAINT:
 
 PAINTSTRUCT ps;
 auto hdc = BeginPaint(hwnd, &ps);
 HTHEME ht = OpenThemeData(hwnd, L"LISTVIEW");
 if(ht)
 
 RECT rc = 10, 10, 100, 50 ;
 DrawThemeBackground(ht, hdc, LVP_LISTITEM, LISS_SELECTED, &rc, NULL); OffsetRect(&rc, 0, 55);
 DrawThemeBackground(ht, hdc, LVP_LISTITEM, LISS_DISABLED, &rc, NULL); OffsetRect(&rc, 0, 55);
 DrawThemeBackground(ht, hdc, LVP_LISTITEM, LISS_SELECTED, &rc, NULL); OffsetRect(&rc, 0, 55);
 DrawThemeBackground(ht, hdc, LVP_LISTITEM, LISS_HOT, &rc, NULL); OffsetRect(&rc, 0, 55);
 DrawThemeBackground(ht, hdc, LVP_LISTITEM, LISS_HOTSELECTED, &rc, NULL); OffsetRect(&rc, 0, 55);
 DrawThemeBackground(ht, hdc, LVP_LISTITEM, LISS_SELECTEDNOTFOCUS, &rc, NULL);
 CloseThemeData(ht);
 

 EndPaint(hwnd, &ps);
 return 0;
 
 case WM_DESTROY:
 PostQuitMessage(0);
 return 0;
 
 return DefWindowProc(hwnd, msg, wParam, lParam);

Output: