Re: List Boxes are great but need over 32KB lines

From: MikeD (nobody_at_nowhere.edu)
Date: 02/19/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:28:17 -0500

"Dan" <dan@mailinator.com> wrote in message
news:u80S6KhFFHA.3608@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Hi all,
>
> I have a list box that displays a text file that I load into it from disk.
> Users add things to the list one at a time via a separate text box, and
they
> can select one or more items from the list and remove them by clicking a
> button. The list is alphabetically sorted automatically. Life has been
good,
> but now we are nearing the ugly 32KB item limit of list boxes and soon
life
> will be not so good.

Only for your users. Even coming close to approaching this limit is not
good. Would YOU want to have to scroll through 32,000 items in a listbox?
Would YOU want to even have to scroll though 10,000 items? Or 5000? Or
even 1000? Virtually every VB MVP (and almost everybody else as well) will
tell you that, AT MOST, you should have a couple hundred items in a listbox
at any given time. You need to provide some means for users to be able to
filter the list. For example, perhaps you can provide a textbox in which
users can type a letter or two and just show items beginning with those
letters. You're really doing your users a favor by not presenting them with
so many items to have to scroll through. 

-- 
Mike
Microsoft MVP Visual Basic