Missing first two characters when retrieving item text with LVM_GETITEM

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Hi,

I'm fairly new with win32 programming, and have met my first roadblock with using the listview control. inserting and adding items is fine, but when i try to retrieve the item's text, i get the text BUT without the first two characters.... Im a bit lost here and would really appreciate any help i can get.

Here's a snippet of the code i use to get the item text:

LVITEM lvi;
TCHAR szBuffer[256] = {0};
ZeroMemory(&lvi, sizeof(lvi));

lvi.mask = LVIF_TEXT;
lvi.iSubItem = 0;
lvi.pszText = szBuffer;
lvi.cchTextMax = 256;
lvi.iItem = 0;
SendMessage(hWndListView, LVM_GETITEM, 0, (LPARAM)&lvi);

Now, instead of getting "Hello", I get "llo" :confused: :confused: :confused:

Thanks