Hi All
I have a listbox that displays messages.Some of the messages are quite large and cannot be fully read in the listbox.Is there anyway that by clicking on a message it will display the full view of the message
Thanks

Brendan Bartley

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Brendan Bartley

You can probably put a text box on the form and when the user clicks the list item, the text is displayed in the text box. Make the text box flat with no border and put itmaybe in the upper right of the list box. Maybe something like that. I don't think you could do a mouse over and get the list item.

mmcdonal

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I am going through this same thing right now. I solved the issue by using a single-click event on the item select on the listbox and transferring any other data the user wanted viewable into either labels or textboxes. It works quite well.

I suggest using a primary/unique key as your first item and set the listbox property Column Widths to 0" for the first column. (hiding the primary/unique key from view)I normally do this in case I want to lookup any other data later on using the listbox.
Use listboxname.column(0) to get the value from the first column, listboxname.column(1) from the second column, etc.

I like using label captions to display the info because the user can't change a label caption and requires less work than a textbox.

listboxname_Click() event
EX: me.labelname.caption = listboxname.Column(1)

Thanks for your reply. Your reply has worked. I have very little room
in my listbox is there anyway to hide the listbox and show the caption
Thanks

Brendan Bartley

How would the user select an item if it were hidden? If they don't ned to select an item, then just hide the list box with the properties dialog (Visible = No) or with code: Me.ListBox.Visible = False.



mmcdonal

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