>>We have a listbox populated with a read/write cursor, ranging from 100 to 2-3000 records. The user wants to know how many items have been selected using the Shift-click and Ctrl-click methods.
>>
>>Any suggestions? Am I missing something obvious?
>>
>>TIA
>>Barbara
>
>In the Click event on the listbox place the following code:
>
>nSelected = 0
>FOR x = 1 TO This.ListCount
> IF This.Selected(x)
> nSelected = nSelected + 1
> ENDIF
>NEXT
>
>*-- Shows the number of selected records to the user
>Thisform.SelectedNo.Caption = STR(nSelected)

Thanks, Benn, that would do it, of course. I should have put in the previous message that I was trying to avoid this method, because I often have 5000 records, and doing this loop each click would be abominably slow.

I thought perhaps someone knew how Explorer and similar Win95 functions handle this.

Barbara