Disable ListView selection and hover cues

Question

I'm developing a ListView with a GridView in it. I am coloring each ListViewItem based on a magnitude figure. All is well until I mouse over the ListView or select an item, when the color is changed based on the standard behavior of a ListView.

What would be the simplest/best way to disable the default row highlighting on mouse hover and selection?

--- Jim ---

Answer 1

Hi Jimbo,

You need to reset the control template for the listviewitem.
This should work fine:

<Style TargetType="{x:Type ListViewItem}">
            <Setter Property="Template">
                <Setter.Value>
                    <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ListViewItem}">
                        <GridViewRowPresenter />
                    </ControlTemplate>
                </Setter.Value>
            </Setter>
        </Style>

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Thanks for the response Stephanne, however with this I run into a problem in that my background setter on the style no longer works. Do I need to hook up the background setter/converter somewhere within the template?

    <Style TargetType="{x:Type ListViewItem}">
      <Setter Property="Template">
        <Setter.Value>
          <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ListViewItem}">
            <GridViewRowPresenter />
          </ControlTemplate>
        </Setter.Value>
      </Setter>
      <Setter Property="Background">
        <Setter.Value>
          <Binding Path="MyField" Converter="{StaticResource MyConverter}" />
        </Setter.Value>
      </Setter>
    </Style>

Answer 3

Jimbo,

You should try somthing like:

<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ListViewItem}">
                        <Border Background="{Binding Path=MyColor}">
                            <GridViewRowPresenter />   
                        </Border>                         
                    </ControlTemplate>

MyColor, in my case is a SolidColorBrush property of my underlying data object. It should work in your case also with the converter applied to your needs...

Answer 4

That did the trick! Thanks for saving me literally hours with my wheels spinning in the sand.

--- Jim ---