Listbox header row

[glamb]

Does anyone know how to get the field names as the header for a listbox? I want the user to be able to scroll across the listbox and know what field values they are looking at.

 

[Nigel Gomm]

wouldn't a grid be a better bet for this?

nigel

 

[glamb]

Yes, except the code has already been written and involves two listboxes where the user can move a row back and forth from one listbox to the other. I didn't know they wanted all row fields and so have a stationary header for each listbox. I would have to re-write the whole thing to put it in two grids.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Glamb,

What do you mean by a "header for a listbox"? Listboxes don't have "headers".

Do you mean you want to display some text just above the listbox? If so, place a label on the form and set its caption to the required text.

Mike



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[glamb]

Yes, that is the problem, that there is no "header". How do I make a horizontally scrolling "header" for the columns in the listbox so the user will know what field values they are looking at?

 

[GriffMG]

I follow you, and it's not easy.

The closest you could probably get is to fix you 'headers' in the first and last records that fill the list box and make those two entries disabled.

They will look slightly different, and will scroll out of the visible area - but it's that or rewrite using grids!

Regards

Griff
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[Nigel Gomm]

easier to rewrite to use grids (imho)

n.b. the allowcellsection property can help a grid mimic listbox behaviour

n

p.s. there is also the listview activex.. see Mike's

http://www.ml-consult.co.uk/foxst-28.htm.

But again that's a rewrite.

 

[glamb]

thanks everyone.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Glamb,

OK, I understand now what you want. The simple fact is that a listbox won't do it. I agree with the others that you should use a grid.

MIke

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[cbasoz]

Use a grid. You are describing a moverlist. Check foxyclasses' MoverListXX class to get an idea how it would work. It uses grids.

Cetin Basoz
MS Foxpro MVP, MCP

 

[Nifrabar]

Wouldnot it be most easy to extend the listboxitems with the requested additional (field) information (extra column)?
As suggested before a label can easily display the content of the selected listboxitem.
hth
-Bart

 

[Mike Gagnon]

The ctList.ocx from Dbi-Tech has headers.


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[cbasoz]

No, a grid would be most easy. OTOH easy is a relative term.

Cetin Basoz
MS Foxpro MVP, MCP

 

[Mike Lewis]

If Glamb already has a functioning listbox, and the only feature missing is the headers, the easiest solution would be to place a set of labels at the top of the grid - one label above each column.

But for anyone starting from scratch, a grid would be a better choice.

Mike

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[Olaf Doschke]

Mike,

there is the extra task of having labels over the listbox that would move, if you scroll horizontally (right<->left), as the listbox is not wide enough to hold all columns.

As it's a mover with two listboxes a solution might be to not put these two listboxes side by side but one underneath the other. Then you might have enough space horizontally to have simple fixed labels over all the columns.

Otherwise, yes, the simple task of scrolling headers is most easily achieved by a grid.

By the way I have designed such a control class with the UI Sepereated from the rest of the logic, so it does not matter much, if I use a listbox or grid. The only foundation is having two cursors options and selections, methods that move options to the selections cursor or vice versa and the UI is just blindly showing the cursors.

If you also separated your coding logic that way it should be quite easy to switch from listboxes to grids.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Good points, Olaf - especially about separating the logic from the UI.

Mike

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[craigber]

You could use a ListView ActiveX control and set the style to Report. But it isn't easy to use.

Craig Berntson
MCSD, Visual FoxPro MVP,

http://www.craigberntson.com/blog