Tips 11

Change color of ListView items

To change background color of ListView items, you need to write your own OnCustomDrawItem event handler.
The best result is when you set the ViewStyle to vsReport, but it’s completely functional even with vsList style. OnCustomDrawItem code is very simple:

unit Unit1;

interface

uses
Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
Dialogs, ComCtrls;

type
TForm1 = class(TForm)
ListView1: TListView;
procedure ListView1CustomDrawItem(Sender: TCustomListView; Item: TListItem; State: TCustomDrawState; var DefaultDraw: Boolean);
private
{ Private declarations }
public
{ Public declarations }
end;

var
Form1: TForm1;

implementation

{$R *.dfm}

procedure TForm1.ListView1CustomDrawItem(Sender: TCustomListView; Item: TListItem; State: TCustomDrawState; var DefaultDraw: Boolean);
begin
with ListView1.Canvas.Brush do
begin
case Item.Index of
0: Color := clYellow;
1: Color := clGreen;
2: Color := clRed;
end;
end;
end;

end.