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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!jet!kb
- From: kb@jet.uk (Kenneth Blackler)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
- Subject: Re: Moving about a list box with 700 items
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.100641.9712@jet.uk>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 10:06:41 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.160924.25963@utagraph.uta.edu>
- Organization: Joint European Torus
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- In <1992Jul17.160924.25963@utagraph.uta.edu> john@utafll.uta.edu (John Baima) writes:
-
- >I have a listbox with about 700 items. It would be nice to move about
- >the list by typing more than just the first character (the default).
- >Any clues?
-
- >Thanks for any help.
-
- >John Baima
- >Silver Mountain Software 1029 Tanglewood, Cedar Hill, TX 75104
- >john@ling.uta.edu Voice/Fax (214) 2932920
-
- Try making it a combo-box with an edit control, trap changes
- in the edit control's text and do a search on it re. the help
- system. If the user clicks on an actual selection, put that
- text in the edit box
- Ken B.
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