how to lock a listbox

[hinchdog]

is that a way to make a listbox locked,that is, so people can scroll but not select anything? like locking a textbox

 

[TomKane]

I think I have a work around in that what I did was that I filled up the listbox but disabled it and set listindex to 0. Then I have a vertical scrollbar next to it and when the user presses the down button I just add 1 to the listindex and when they want to go up I subtract 1. There's a bit of validation required so that you don't go off either edge - but it works!!

Hope it helps....

 

[Schweiger]

If you don't mind using the Listview found in the Windows Common Controls you can achive the look and feel of a "locked listbox"...
Set following properties of listview:

.view = lvwReport
.HideColumnHeaders = True
.HideSelection = True
.LabelWrap = False
.FullRowSelect = False
.Gridlines = False
.LabelEdit = lvwManual

Then add two columns to the listview and set the width of the first one to 0. To fill the listview you use something like this:

With listview1.listitems.Add(,,"")
  .subitems(1) = "

ListEntry

"
End With

This looks pretty much as a "locked listbox" I think.

hope this helps
Andreas

 

[strongm]

Sure, you just need to use the SetWindowLong API call to set the Listbox style to LBS_NOSEL.

 

[hinchdog]

can you show me how to use the API, i'm new to API calls. thx