Hello!

I'm facing a problem with Listview Drog and Drop of multiple items from one listview to another listview. When I try to Drag only one single item, the item is dragged without any problem. However, when the multiple selected items are dragged, the Listview on which the items are dropped, receives information about only one item and not all selected items. The item, about which the information is received, is the same on which I click and hold mouse to start drag action. So, it looks like even though multiple items are selected in a listview, while executing the Drag-Drop action, listview treats it as single item selected!

Is this a default behavior of Listview or am I missing/doing anything wrong? Any work-around for this (seems like default) behavior of Listview? I searched for it and got a code example at http://btmtz.mvps.org/listview/ where the author has demonstrated Drag-Drop of multiple items. However, the code is specifically restricted to re-arranging items within same Listview and the information is transported via Drag-Drop to another Listview, upon which the items are dropped.

Waiting for your valuable reply ...

Regards,

Ruturaj.

I'm sure you are going to have to add code that is triggered by the 'drop' action of the destination control to then go and check whether multiple items are selected in the source control, and, if so, copy each additional item through code.

Yeh, I think that's the only way because it looks like Data object is totally blind to this aspect of Listview control. Basically I was expecting some string array or something that sort of thing; but this seems to be impossible! :(

I solved the problem storing the selected ListView items in a Collection before I start the dragging operation. In the drop event, I use the collection to find the items to be dropped

In this case, how you deal with SubItems?

Also, when the Drop action is completed then how do you clear your Collection? I guess Set colObj = Nothing will do it for us, right?

yes, after the drop operation setting the collection to nothing will clear it

if you store in the collection the key or the index of the selected item, you get the sub items just using the SubItem method

Yeh, I tried it and it worked fine. Thanks.

Why dont you try to call the "DoDragDrop" of the listview in the ItemDrag event handler

listview1_ItemDrag(object sender, ItemDragEventArgs e)
{
   listview1.DoDragDrop(listview1.SelectedItems, DragDropEffects.Move);
}
in the dragdrop event of the receiving listview, simply typecast the object back to "ListView.SelectedListViewItemCollection"

and we are done.

Mayukh

Thanks! Certainly a valuable tip.