Can listbox have a different data type? Integer 32767 is not enough.

[zerodevice]

hi, i am doing a loop that will stores all the combinations into a listbox, however, it has more than 32767 items, what should i do?

i did thought of using array, but i need it to be displayed and also need the index of the listbox for some calculations.

anyway i can change the listbox's .listcount maximum into 999999 ?

[penagate]

Try using a ListView instead.

[Pradeep1210]

I suggest u use an array to manage the items and use the list box as a secondary element for visual puproses only. So u can fill the array upto 999999 but display only 5 - 10 elements in the listbox. Add a scroll bar and on change, refresh teh list items from the array. So that the scrollbar, the listbox and the array stay in sync.

This was because even if u get a control which supports those much rows, I suppose it would be quite slow.

[zerodevice]

hmm... i know what u mean. but not quite sure its a good way, because of my calculations on producing the integer values that is going to ba a lot of them. the array doesnt seem to fit in so simple.

[chemicalNova]

Long and Double (and possibly Currency) Types can hold more than an Integer, although Pradeep's method isn't the best. Using an array it would take a very long time ( if not crash your PC ) to store all of the indexes in memory, let alone fill them with data.

You can't, lower your number of items?

chem

[zerodevice]

Long and Double (and possibly Currency) Types can hold more than an Integer, although Pradeep's method isn't the best. Using an array it would take a very long time ( if not crash your PC ) to store all of the indexes in memory, let alone fill them with data.

You can't, lower your number of items?

chem

i sure hope i can lower the numbers of items.
however those are actually a combinations of various hex values from 1 digit to 4 digit from 0 -> FFFF.

i generated the list and its mroe than 32767, and so my listbox dont hold the index, and i am doign a loop to make it load the list item by index value into textbox.

anyway, i am spliting it up into 4 listbox. that should do the job.

[Pradeep1210]

There is not much difference in storing data in array or listbox apart from the visual effect. Both can be accessed via their index values. u just need to keep them in sync.