Better ListView 2.4.0 now supports setting MaximumTextLines property on every item and sub-item, so you can have multi-line items each with different number text lines:
Dynamic resizing of the focused item
We also introduced FocusedItemChanged event, so that you can detect when focus has moved from one element (item / sub-item / group) to another.
These features can be combined to display only the focused item with more details to save space code of the FocusedItemChanged event handler may look like this:
C#
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void ListViewFocusedItemChanged(object sender, BetterListViewFocusedItemChangedEventArgs eventArgs)
{
BetterListView listView = (BetterListView)sender;
listView.BeginUpdate();
if (eventArgs.FocusedItemOld != null)
{
// set single line of text for currenly unfocused item
eventArgs.FocusedItemOld.MaximumTextLines = 1;
}
if (eventArgs.FocusedItemNew != null)
{
// set three lines of text for currenly focused item
eventArgs.FocusedItemNew.MaximumTextLines = 3;
}
listView.EndUpdate();
}
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Visual Basic
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Sub ListViewFocusedItemChanged(sender As Object, eventArgs As BetterListViewFocusedItemChangedEventArgs)
Dim ListView As BetterListView = DirectCast(sender, BetterListView)
ListView.BeginUpdate()
If eventArgs.FocusedItemOld IsNot Nothing Then
‘ set single line of text for currenly unfocused item
eventArgs.FocusedItemOld.MaximumTextLines = 1
End If
If eventArgs.FocusedItemNew IsNot Nothing Then
‘ set three lines of text for currenly focused item
eventArgs.FocusedItemNew.MaximumTextLines = 3
End If
ListView.EndUpdate()
End Sub
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