No, but if you read the question, it was about keeping the user off the list while programaticaly selecting one item at time in a loop...


>Can you do that for individual items? Perhaps if the rowSourceType is popup, but I dunno.
>
>>Keep the listbox disabled but change the disablebackcolor and disableforecolor :-)
>>
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>>
>>>hello all --
>>>
>>>i have an enabled, populated listbox.
>>>i do some processing that is based on each item in the listbox.
>>>as a form of "progress indicated" i am programmatically selecting (highlighting) each item in the listbox processed.
>>>i'm using a multiselect listbox for visual appeal.
>>>
>>>the question:
>>>in order for the nice looking (intuitive) highlight to appear,
>>>it seems the listbox has to be enabled. i would really like
>>>to disable the listbox so the user cannot de-select any of the
>>>highlighted items, but when i do, the highlights do not appear.
>>>
>>>is there something i can do in the Click or Double-Click event
>>>to intercept that action and to prevent the default action
>>>from occuring ??
>>>
>>>thanks for your ideas,