List Box Controls

The following lists the mandatory properties for list box controls.

Listbox control-id"title"x y width height

Property

Description

listbox

Identifies the control as a list box control.

control-id

Control ID number. It must be an integer between 1 and 32767 and be unique within a given top-level window.

"title"

Title of the control, contained in quotation marks.

x

Horizontal position of the upper-left corner of the control in current units.

y

Vertical position of the upper-left corner of the control in current units.

width

Width of the control in current units.

height

Height of the control in current units.

The Resource Properties Index identifies and describes the optional properties for this control.

Backgroundcolor

Clientedge

Disabled

Font

Foregroundcolor

Group

Initialcontents

Invisible

Longcue

Multiselect

Name

Opaque

Popupmenuid

Raisededge

Readonly

Recordfield

Shortcue

Title

Example

The following example contains a window with two list box controls; the first contains only the mandatory definitions, and the second contains optional settings.

Version "3.0"
Window 1 "Control Window" 0 0 200 100
Begin
Listbox 1 "OK" 10 10 50 25
Listbox 2 "Done" 50 10 50 25 Begin
Font "Arial" 12, Bold, CS_DEFAULT
Backgroundcolor Rgb(128,255,128)
Foregroundcolor Rgb(64,128,64)
Initialcontents "Item1\nitem2\nitem3\nitem4\n"
Multiselect Clientedge Raisededge Disabled
Invisible
Readonly
End
End