Can The User Copy Out Of Listboxes?

[marello]

Hey,

Sorry for the newbie question. I've got my first ever program and it's working. Having tested it a bit it would be helpful for the user to be able to copy the results printed in a listbox into an email or text doc. Just somewhere where they can make a note of it really.

Is this possible? Is there something I need to do to enable it? All the google results I found were referring more to doing this in code. I literally want to be able to support Ctrl+A, the Ctrl+C straight out of the program to wherever the user wants.

Thanks!

[chris128]

Is there a reason why the items are in a listbox then and not just in a multi-line textbox or RichTextBox ? (as both of those controls would support this without any extra work and you can make both of them Read-Only)

[jmcilhinney]

Not by default, because there's no way to know exactly what format to copy the data in. You could create a String array but what if there's more data bound behind the scenes? You could always write your own custom code to place the appropriate data on the clipboard yourself, then the user can paste as normal.

[marello]

Chris, it's a listbox because it was my first program and the array seemed quite hard to master. I'm extracting a list of files using Excel as a database and then checking all the names for duplicates. The duplicates then get added to a final listbox. Would it be easy to turn this into a multiline text box?

[chris128]

It would be easy to change it to a multiline textbox yeah as long as your program design does not rely on the fact that this is a listbox and users can actually select individual items in it. You would just replace the listbox with a textbox and then wherever you have got

listbox.items.add("item text here")

you just replace it with this

textbox.AppendText("item text here" & vbNewLine)

(oh and dont forget to set the MultiLine property of the textbox to True