Listbox control

[harjeen]

Does anyone know if there's an alternative to the usual Listbox control which allows list items to be > 1024 characters and creates a horizontal scroll bar when necessary? (The Listbox control that ships with VB6 Enterprise SP4 does not support either of these characteristics).

Any help is greatly appreciated,

Nahid Harjee

Try the TreeView or the ListView Controls that are part of MicroSoft Windows Common Controls 6.0

[MartinLiss]

I believe that Aaron Young posted a way to add a horizontal scrollbar to the ListBox via the API. Do a search for Listbox and his name and you may find at least one of your answers.

[harjeen]

Thanks Martin,

That code for the horizontal scroll bar is perfect... now if I could only find a way for the ListBox to accept strings 1024+ characters in length.

[MartinLiss]

You might email him directly and ask.

[harjeen]

Ok, I'll drop him a line.

Thanks again.

Adding a horizontal line to a listbox:

Const WM_USER = 1024
Const LB_SETHORIZONTALEXTENT = (WM_USER + 21)
Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Any) As Long

nNewWidth = list1.Width + 100
nRet = SendMessage(list1.hWnd, LB_SETHORIZONTALEXTENT, nNewWidth, ByVal 0&)