When set to true, the Better ListView does not respond to keyboard and mouse input. There are, however, some exceptions that make the Read-only mode different to the Disabled mode (when Enabled property is set to false).

When in Read-only mode, content of the Better ListView can be still scrolled (the scroll bars are enabled) and groups/items can be expanded/collapsed.

The difference between Disabled and Read-only can be seen on the following images:

Normal state

Disabled state

Read-only state

As you can see, the Better ListView is displayed normally in Read-only mode, but the group header does not have a hot state (because cannot be focused). Items also cannot be focused or selected, but the expand buttons are still interactive.

The scroll bars would also be enabled and can be used, which is different from Disabled mode where everything is grayed and cannot be used.

We quickly realized that it might be very useful, in some cases, to have items with informative character only. Some of such non-selectable items can even be used as separators with the help of owner drawing:

Non-selectable items

The non-selectable items behave just as their name suggests. They cannot be focused (they are skipped when jumping from item to item with arrow keys) and do not respond to drag selection:

Non-selectable items

It is very easy to set-up such items. Simply set BetterListViewItem.Selectable property to false.

The non-selectable items are displayed in the same way as normal items. They can contain child items (which are selectable until their Selectable property is set to false) and can be interactively expanded/collapsed.

If you need to have all items non-selectable to use Better ListView for display-only, consider using the Read-only mode, which has been also introduced in version 2.5.