BackgImage

Private Type LVBKIMAGE
ulFlags As Long
hBitmap As Long
pszImage As String
cchImageMax As Long
xOffsetPercent As Long
yOffsetPercent As Long
End Type

Private Const LVM_FIRST = &H1000&
Private Const LVM_SETTEXTBKCOLOR = (LVM_FIRST + 38)
Private Const LVM_SETBKIMAGE = (LVM_FIRST + 68)
Private Const LVBKIF_SOURCE_URL = &H2
Private Const LVBKIF_STYLE_TILE = &H10
Private Const CLR_NONE = &HFFFFFFFF

Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" _
Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, _
ByVal lMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, _
lParam As Any) As Long
'_________________________________________________________


Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim tLVBKImage As LVBKIMAGE

With tLVBKImage
.ulFlags = LVBKIF_SOURCE_URL Or LVBKIF_STYLE_TILE
.pszImage = "c:\windows\clouds.bmp"
.cchImageMax = Len(.pszImage)
End With

SendMessage ListView1.hwnd, LVM_SETTEXTBKCOLOR, 0, ByVal CLR_NONE
SendMessage ListView1.hwnd, LVM_SETBKIMAGE, 0, tLVBKImage

End Sub

For this To work, you need comctl32.dll version 4.71
Or greater the version that came with IE 4.0.

Create a New project And drop a ListView control onto a
form. Then paste the following into the form's code window: