Horizontal Scrollbar to ListBox

[Wolfen12]

Hi

Im very new to VFP, I dont seem to get any scrollbar property on the listbox.Can you put n Horizontal scrollbar on a listbox.Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you

 

[Mike Lewis]

Wolfen12,

Welcome to VFP.

Listboxes in VFP do not have horizontal scroll bars. Grids do. If the information that you wish to display is unusually wide, consider using a grid instead of a listbox.

Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[Mike Lewis]

Just to add to my previous reply:

You can use item tips with a listbox. The item tip displays the full text of the item under the mouse, when the listbox is not wide enough to do so.

To enable item tips, set the ItemTips property to .T.

Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[Wolfen12]

Hi

Thanks for the suggestions.
I did think of a grid rather, but this is only an option if I dont have other tricks.
I like the ItemTip idea, I set it to true but it didnt help??? - if Im right it should be like a tooltip

 

[Mike Lewis]

Yes, it looks like a tooltip, but keep in mind that it will only be visible if the text in the listbox item (the one under the mouse) is wider than the listbox itself.

Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[Imaginecorp]

In addition to Mikes explanation, if multicolumns in the list box, tooltips will only work if the text in the First column is wider than the width of the list box. Tooltips will not work for the second, third... columns.

If your first column is not wide enough, see the, "Display text, in Item Tips, in a multiple column List Box", in my F&Q's