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Bryn,
In your list box, How many columns are you displaying?. Normally you should just have one. I would like to help you work on this.
Scotty :
Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself."
-- Hyman George Rickover (1900-86),
In your list box, How many columns are you displaying?. Normally you should just have one. I would like to help you work on this.
Scotty :
Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself."-- Hyman George Rickover (1900-86),
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Normally you should have just one?? Why would you ever have JUST one is my question! Normally they are used to give people choices between things that are attached toa record identifier, and since people don't remember ID numbers but remember names/descriptions/etc.. you use a two column list box (at least) with one column being the identifier and the other being the name/description/etc..
As for the question. You can't click on the built in columns of the listbox, but you can make textboxes on top of the listbox. Format them so they look like labels and when people click on them you can associate an event to reorder the items in the listbox. You can also add ControlTips like "Click here to sort by X" so users can see they can change the sort order.
HTH Joe Miller
joe.miller@flotech.net
As for the question. You can't click on the built in columns of the listbox, but you can make textboxes on top of the listbox. Format them so they look like labels and when people click on them you can associate an event to reorder the items in the listbox. You can also add ControlTips like "Click here to sort by X" so users can see they can change the sort order.
HTH Joe Miller
joe.miller@flotech.net
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Joe,
You have helped me many-a-time. I yeild to you knowledge. It is just that I use one and display other necessary information in a set of text boxes. for instance. A user can call up all the records they entered for a given date. In the list box I "add" all records for "ThisUser" for "ThisDate", then they simply scroll through the records. On the AfterUpdate Event of the list box I put "Name", "Address", "Heigth", "Weight" so on and so on in text fields located elsewhere on the form. That way they can "View" the entire record, without looking at a continuing form. My users find this more "user friendly" and it takes no more time to do it this way (from the users' viewpoint" either.
JMTC
Scotty : Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself."
-- Hyman George Rickover (1900-86),
You have helped me many-a-time. I yeild to you knowledge. It is just that I use one and display other necessary information in a set of text boxes. for instance. A user can call up all the records they entered for a given date. In the list box I "add" all records for "ThisUser" for "ThisDate", then they simply scroll through the records. On the AfterUpdate Event of the list box I put "Name", "Address", "Heigth", "Weight" so on and so on in text fields located elsewhere on the form. That way they can "View" the entire record, without looking at a continuing form. My users find this more "user friendly" and it takes no more time to do it this way (from the users' viewpoint"
either.JMTC
Scotty :
Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself."-- Hyman George Rickover (1900-86),
Scotty,
It was not meant as a flame, I just didn't agree with the "normally" word. Nothing to do with programming computers is ever "normal" in my experience! I can see how you would do things your way for the users and can see why would you have that view on list boxes.
Joe Miller
joe.miller@flotech.net
It was not meant as a flame, I just didn't agree with the "normally" word. Nothing to do with programming computers is ever "normal" in my experience!
I can see how you would do things your way for the users and can see why would you have that view on list boxes.Joe Miller
joe.miller@flotech.net
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