How to add items to an MFC CListCtrl object so their icons appear in top-to-bottom sequence?

Question

I'm using Visual Studio C++ 2008 v 3.5 SP1 (with Feature Pack).

After adding items to an MFC CListCtrl object via InsertItem(), their icons appear in reverse row order, but correct column order, in most of the view modes. I'm not using "report" (LV_VIEW_DETAILS) mode, so the rows and columns I mention refer to how the icons are sequenced within a grid or layout.

I add them like this:

for (int i = 0; i < item_count; ++i)
    list_ctrl.InsertItem (i, item_arr[i].text, i); 

and would like them to appear like this:

icon 0
icon 1
icon 2
:
icon N-2
icon N-1

(where icon # matches its item # and N is item_count).

However, in "large icon", "small icon" and "tile" (LV_VIEW_ICON, LV_VIEW_SMALLICON, LV_VIEW_TILE) modes, they appear like this:

icon N-1
icon N-2
:
icon 2
icon 1
icon 0

They only appear in correct sequence in "list" (LV_VIEW_LIST) mode, but then they arrange and scroll horizontally:

icon 0  icon 1  icon 2  ..  icon N-2  icon N-1

(Whether they appear all in a single row/column is merely a function of the relative size/dimension of the icons and the control.) It seems I can have vertical orientation but reverse order, or correct order but wrong orientation!

How do I get things the way I want? I've seen nothing in the docs or in forums about this -- only about sorting items by text (which I don't want) or sorting the order of columns in details/report mode (which I don't want).

Answer 1

After spending too much time we finally figured it out: I needed to change the OwnerDrawFixed property (back) to False! Now it works as expected.