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Multiselect listbox with many items
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18/11/1997 11:39:37
Murray Mcintosh
Mammography Reporting System, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Visual FoxPro
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Forms & Form designer
Miscellaneous
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00060239
Message ID:
00060954
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>>>>I agree with you. Also, even if there's no limit for the number of items, there's a bug for lists with more than 253 items. And this is somehow a limit.
>>>>
>>>>Vlad
>>>
>>>What sort of bug?
>>
>>Barbara already answered this.
>>
>>>And what method would you use to present a longer list of items?
>>
>>Based on tables/queries. You don't want to have long lists when working with AddItem, RemoveItem, etc. It's much too slow.
>>
>>Vlad
>
>Which brings us back to the bug with the 253rd item in the list (and every 256th thereafter) for lists using tables/queries/sql as a rowsource.
>It's a vicious circle isn't it?
>
Of course, you can always use a grid with settings to make it look like a listbox...use a logical to flag selected, dynamic color, etc...
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.
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