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Suppress Flickering Scrollbars in Autosizing CListCtrl

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How to avoid flickering scrollbars that appear when resizing CListCtrl which has a last column with the LVSCW_AUTOSIZE_USEHEADER value set.
/*
* Copyright (c) 2011-2013 by Julijan Sribar
* 
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* including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
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* 
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*     appreciated but is not required.
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*/

#pragma once

#include ".\NonExtendableHeaderCtrl.h"

// CLastColumnAutoResizingListCtrl class definition

class CLastColumnAutoResizingListCtrl : public CListCtrl
{
	DECLARE_DYNAMIC(CLastColumnAutoResizingListCtrl)

public:
	CLastColumnAutoResizingListCtrl();
	virtual ~CLastColumnAutoResizingListCtrl();

protected:
	DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()
public:
	afx_msg void OnSize(UINT nType, int cx, int cy);
	afx_msg void OnWindowPosChanging(WINDOWPOS* lpwndpos);
	afx_msg void OnLvnDeleteitem(NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult);

	afx_msg void OnHdnBegintrack(NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult);
	afx_msg void OnHdnItemchanging(NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult);
	afx_msg void OnHdnItemchanged(NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult);
	afx_msg void OnHdnEndtrack(NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult);

	afx_msg void OnHdnDividerdblclick(NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult);
	afx_msg void OnKeyDown(UINT nChar, UINT nRepCnt, UINT nFlags);

	virtual void PreSubclassWindow();

private:
	CNonExtendableHeaderCtrl m_header;
	BOOL m_trackingHeaderDivider;
	int m_oldColumnWidth;

	int GetLastColumnIndex();
	int GetAllItemsHeight();
	int GetRowWidth();
	int GetHeaderHeight();
	bool IsScrollBarVisible(DWORD scrollBar);
	void PrepareForScrollbarsHiding(int deltaX, int deltaY);
};


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Graduated at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb (Croatia) and received M.Sc. degree in electronics. For several years he was research and lecturing assistant in the fields of solid state electronics and electronic circuits, published several scientific and professional papers, as well as a book "Physics of Semiconductor Devices - Solved Problems with Theory" (in Croatian).
During that work he gained interest in C++ programming language and have co-written "C++ Demystified" (in Croatian), 1st edition published in 1997, 2nd in 2001, 3rd in 2010, 4th in 2014.
After book publication, completely switched to software development, programming mostly in C++ and in C#.
In 2016 coauthored the book "Python for Curious" (in Croatian).

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