scrolling listbox is slow

[Filips Benoit]

Dear All,

Scrolling a listbox having a large numbre of coloms and row is slow. Is
there a tric to speed it up?

Filip

[pietlinden]

Yup. Remove most of the items by having the user type something in a
textbox, then filter the list, then populate it. then since you don't
have nearly as many items, it'll speed up.

[Darryl Kerkeslager]

Listboxes are great, and I use them a lot - but usually only for a limited
number of items, not too many more than would be visible on scrren.
Consider using a combobox for more than 15 items.
Darryl Kerkeslager
"Filips Benoit" <be***********@pandora.be> wrote:

Scrolling a listbox having a large numbre of coloms and row is slow. Is
there a tric to speed it up?

Filip

[Bas Cost Budde]

Darryl Kerkeslager wrote:

Listboxes are great, and I use them a lot - but usually only for a limited
number of items, not too many more than would be visible on scrren.
Consider using a combobox for more than 15 items.

Hm <frown> that would only postpone the delay until the user chooses to
dropdown (as opposite to: the user chooses to drop down :-) ) I
sometimes dedicate a subform to this.

But what is the enormous listbox supposed to do/offer?

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