title: Simple TListView OwnerDraw Text Font Size and Color example?
body: <p>I am trying to owner draw a List View control in report-mode  with 4 columns, using <code>OnCustomDrawItem</code>.</p>
  
  <p>When I try to change the Canvas.font.color, and that's all I do, I have no problems.</p>
  
  <p>If I set canvas.font.size, I find that there is no change in the size of the text drawn by the control.</p>
  
  <p>If I try to take over the painting of the text, from within OnCustomDrawItem, I find I can not.   I am aware of how to use OnCustomDraw to draw in the background area, but I want to custom draw a listview ITEM, so that I can set the color and font name and font size of the text.</p>
  
  <p>I know that there are some problems with using Canvas in the context of ListView owner draw, and some limitations of what you can do in a ListView.</p>
  
  <pre><code>procedure TForm1.MyListViewCustomDrawItem(Sender: TCustomListView;
    Item: TListItem; State: TCustomDrawState; var DefaultDraw: Boolean);
  begin
      Sender.Canvas.Font.Size := 13; // NO effect.
      Sender.Canvas.Font.Color := clRed; // WORKS.
      Sender.Canvas.Font.Style  :=Sender.Canvas.Font.Style + [fsBold]; // WORKS!
  end;
  </code></pre>