Re: question regarding listbox

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:24:10 -0800

Message-ID:

<421BE220-4893-4ACD-9D9E-2D83FDFE01FF@microsoft.com>

If you use a CListCtrl in report mode instead you can use the style:

LVS_EX_INFOTIP

To get the info tip. If you want to use the listbox you can have it do
horizontal scrolling using something like:

int oldwidth = m_cListbox.GetHorizontalExtent();
CDC* pDC = m_cListbox.GetWindowDC();
if (pDC) {
      int newwidth = (int)(pDC->GetTextExtent(szString,
(int)_tcslen(szString)).cx);
      m_cListbox.ReleaseDC(pDC);
      if (newwidth > oldwidth)
           m_cListbox.SetHorizontalExtent(newwidth);
}

and the scroll bar will appear. You would call this right before doing a
new AddString() call with the new string.

Tom

"kunal s patel" <kunalspatel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3EB28D31-92F3-414A-A312-0E611D05F39A@microsoft.com...

Hi all,

In my listbox whenever the line exceeds the size of listbox, i am unable
to
see the line completely. Some of the part is hidden. Now i dont want to
include a horizontal scroll bar to it but want the list box to wrap around
and start from the next line if the length is greater than size of
listbox.
Is there a property which would help me enable this??

Kunal

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