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Re: Moving about a list box with 700 items

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From: Kenneth Blackler
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 10:06
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In <1992Jul17.160924.25963@utagraph.uta.edu> john@utafll.uta.edu (John Baima) writes:

>I have a listbox with about 700 items. It would be nice to move about
>the list by typing more than just the first character (the default).
>Any clues?

>Thanks for any help.

>John Baima
>Silver Mountain Software   1029 Tanglewood, Cedar Hill, TX 75104
>john@ling.uta.edu          Voice/Fax (214) 2932920

Try making it a combo-box with an edit control, trap changes 
in the edit control's text and do a search on it re. the help
system. If the user clicks on an actual selection, put that
text in the edit box
Ken B.
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From: kb@jet.uk (Kenneth Blackler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Moving about a list box with 700 items
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Date: 28 Jul 92 10:06:41 GMT
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