From 157ec6f24551435436cd89201f37def90428b2d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vadim Zeitlin <vadim@wxwidgets.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:16:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] resolving a conflict

git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/branches/WX_2_2_BRANCH@7848 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775
---
 src/msw/listctrl.cpp | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/msw/listctrl.cpp b/src/msw/listctrl.cpp
index acb319062b..cbe91c8878 100644
--- a/src/msw/listctrl.cpp
+++ b/src/msw/listctrl.cpp
@@ -1040,9 +1040,12 @@ long wxListCtrl::FindItem(long start, const wxString& str, bool partial)
     findInfo.flags = LVFI_STRING;
     if ( partial )
         findInfo.flags |= LVFI_PARTIAL;
-    findInfo.psz = WXSTRINGCAST str;
+    findInfo.psz = str;
 
-    return ListView_FindItem(GetHwnd(), (int) start, & findInfo);
+    // ListView_FindItem() excludes the first item from search and to look
+    // through all the items you need to start from -1 which is unnatural and
+    // inconsitent with the generic version - so we adjust the index
+    return ListView_FindItem(GetHwnd(), (int) start - 1, &findInfo);
 }
 
 // Find an item whose data matches this data, starting from the item after 'start'