DefaultItemHeight not accessible for TListView

[Ocye]

DefaultItemHeight is defined as protected in TCustomListView and therefore not accessible for TListView. I need to figure out row height to show an edit control with proper size and position which I want to use to restrict editing for second column only. But I guess there are some other use cases too.
If there is no reason to hide this property I'd write a bug report.

[taazz]

defaultItemHeight is used during creation to set the item height. This value is usually overiden by the underline widgetset and has no meaning in the listview as far as I can see that is because the listview is simple a wrapper (and bad one) around the underline widgetset.

[Ocye]

Sounds as you disagree with the idea to make the row height public, right?

[taazz]

no not really I have no objection to it, just making sure that you know that has no weight on the final item height value that the component uses to draw an item.

[Ocye]

Ah, you mean there is no way to determine the right value. And that's a good reason to hide it.

[howardpc]

DefaultItemHeight is not much use to you: at runtime its value is always 0.
However, TListview has a public Canvas property so you can get dimensions of Captions etc. using Canvas.TextHeight etc.
Also each TListItem has a public Item.DisplayRect() function so you can know precisely where to position your editor.
The protected methods and properties are not needed in this case.

[taazz]

No I think there is a way to determine the correct value something along the lines of font.height + 4 when the list is in list or grid mode if it is on icon or small icon mode then you have to add the icon height + the gap + the number of lines the caption is taking depending on the state (selected or not)...... well you get the point, the final item height can be calculated correctly it is just that the DefaultItemHeight plays no role on that value or at least I haven't find the code that it actually uses it so far.