I have an app in which users can select stuff from a multi-column listbox.
There are something like 30 columns of info for each item and all are
included in the listbox. When I scroll to the right to read some of them,
the identifying info is now scrolled off the screen to the left. Is there a
way to do this directly?

I think I can fake a solution by overlaying one listbox with the one column
on top of the other, but that's be clunky and hard to keep sync'd.

Any ideas?
Thanks.

On Sat, 29 May 2004 01:43:36 GMT, "Colleyville Alan"
<aecharbonneau@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:

Use a different interface. Listboxes just can't do this. Some 3rd
party grid controls can do this 'freeze columns' thing.

-Tom.

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>I have an app in which users can select stuff from a multi-column listbox.
>There are something like 30 columns of info for each item and all are
>included in the listbox. When I scroll to the right to read some of them,
>the identifying info is now scrolled off the screen to the left. Is there a
>way to do this directly?
>
>I think I can fake a solution by overlaying one listbox with the one column
>on top of the other, but that's be clunky and hard to keep sync'd.
>
>Any ideas?
>Thanks.
>[/color]

Tom van Stiphout <tom7744@no.spam.cox.net> wrote in message news:<fa4gb0tjempfvt8d00jkgsootu6d8pa9tt@4ax.com>. ..[color=blue]
> On Sat, 29 May 2004 01:43:36 GMT, "Colleyville Alan"
> <aecharbonneau@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Use a different interface. Listboxes just can't do this. Some 3rd
> party grid controls can do this 'freeze columns' thing.
>
> -Tom.
>
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> >I have an app in which users can select stuff from a multi-column listbox.
> >There are something like 30 columns of info for each item and all are
> >included in the listbox. When I scroll to the right to read some of them,
> >the identifying info is now scrolled off the screen to the left. Is there a
> >way to do this directly?
> >
> >I think I can fake a solution by overlaying one listbox with the one column
> >on top of the other, but that's be clunky and hard to keep sync'd.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >Thanks.
> >[/color][/color]

Do you need to see all the columns in the listbox? If not, remove them.

How about a datasheet subform?
You can freeze the first column (maybe more) there.

HTH
- Turtle

"Colleyville Alan" <aecharbonneau@nospam.comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I have an app in which users can select stuff from a multi-column listbox.
> There are something like 30 columns of info for each item and all are
> included in the listbox. When I scroll to the right to read some of them,
> the identifying info is now scrolled off the screen to the left. Is there[/color]
a[color=blue]
> way to do this directly?
>
> I think I can fake a solution by overlaying one listbox with the one[/color]
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> on top of the other, but that's be clunky and hard to keep sync'd.
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks.
>
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"MacDermott" <macdermott@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> How about a datasheet subform?
> You can freeze the first column (maybe more) there.[/color]

Thanks for the info all who replied.