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From: heath@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Robert Heath)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Listbox - Maximum content
Message-ID: <6737@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 6 Nov 90 14:30:16 GMT
References: <17902@rouge.usl.edu>
Reply-To: heath@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Robert Heath)
Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC
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In article <17902@rouge.usl.edu> pcb@cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) writes:
>
>I need to display a lot of data that the user can scroll through.  
>When I got win3.0, I decided to try to get the listbox to do things, 
>but only 5000 or so lines get added to the box.  Where and how is this
>limit set?  It would be nice for a listbox if you could say, 
>      "here, use this file for your contents".
>

Robert Wood had an article showing how to handle this in the May '90
issue (Vol. 5, No. 3) of Microsoft Systems Journal. 
It was called "Creating Windows List Boxes that Support Virtualized Scrolling." 
The solution is not as simple as you would like, but it handles the problem.

	Robert Heath
	NCR, E&M--Columbia