[AccessD] List box as a status box

I've done this but years ago. I added a string for each event to the rowsource for the listbox.
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jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:

I'm actually talking about "things that happen" events rather than control / form events.

I am carving out a piece of my Inmate Checkout program which goes out to the internet and pulls the 
inmate info for the specific inmates that are already in my database, looking for changes relevant 
to my ability to check the inmate out. For example they are moved to another camp or their security 
level goes up (or down) etc.

I had a very simple text box on the form which I simply updated with a text string when I discovered 
a change to the inmate status. However when the next change came along I lost the last. If I did a 
txt.value = txt.value & vbcrlf & "new status stuff" I ended up with scrolling in the text box which 
is difficult to control.

In this specific case, I was storing these status changes in a table and I ended up just pulling the 
TOP 50 changes out and displaying them in a list control directly, but doing something like that 
where I programmatically stuff them into the list columns would also work nicely.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 7/9/2011 11:34 AM, William Benson (VBACreations.Com) wrote:
> John,
>
> What kind of events ... and how are they trapped?
>
> Bill
>
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> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: [AccessD] List box as a status box
>
> I want to put up a control to display a running status, display then last N
> events that occurred. I
> have never really liked text boxes for this purpose as the last thing
> displayed as I always seem to
> end up with scrolling issues and so forth.
>
> I am thinking about using a list control. This has the advantage (for my
> purposes) of allowing me
> to have neat columns for the date / time and the status to be displayed.
>
> Does anyone do this and want to comment on how they make it work?
>
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