could any one show me how i can change the color of selected external listview item to a color i specify.Thanks

What is an "external listview item?"

well external listview is an listview in diffrent program. A program that i do not have its source code. There is this application that has listview on it and i want to change color of one of its item which is already selected. The default color is black an i want to change it to orange for example. I hope an expert show me how to do it. The item is already selected and all i want to change the text of that selected item.

Without knowing what that control was named by the person who wrote the program (which would require the source code, which you say that you don't have) this will be about impossible. There might be a set of APIs that allow you to retrieve the name of the active control of the window that has the focus, but I’m doubtful.

It is very possible . I already managed to select and highlight any listview item i want but i do not know how to change its color.we can change caption of any window we want knowing its class name so changing color should not be more difficult. But could u tell me what u mean by controle name ? since i might be able to find that some how.Thanks

It is not possible to select the color for a sigle item of the ListView control, regardless if the listView is internal to your project or belonging to another application. Well, unless you subclass the window of course, but I wouldn't do it...

could u teach me how to subclass the window that holds that listview ? i realy want to learn this. Thanks

take a look at this:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Prog..._10142124.html

I did not try the code, but the idea is that. If you google for "vb6 subclass" you'll find tons of other examples.

How you did it?I am trying to read title of active window. But if it is outlook window, I want to read email currently selected..how I can do that? pl help.