Hi.

I am new to any sort of programming but am experminting on vb.6 I am creating a coin collection program which I have a "show all" button. The problem is there seems to be a limitation on the textbox I am bringing the results into. My question: Is there a way to create a view box with the text file, I have created already with the 10 fields. It is a comma delim file and each field has quotes ie: "test1","test2","ect.... Are there any SIMPLE examples with using the DEFAULT names given in vb to view this data? I hope I did not confuse everyone reading this a I am very confused.
Hope someone can help.

John

Welcome to AndreaVB John.

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John wrote:
Hi.

I am new to any sort of programming but am experminting on vb.6 I am creating a coin collection program which I have a "show all" button. The problem is there seems to be a limitation on the textbox I am bringing the results into. My question: Is there a way to create a view box with the text file, I have created already with the 10 fields. It is a comma delim file and each field has quotes ie: "test1","test2","ect.... Are there any SIMPLE examples with using the DEFAULT names given in vb to view this data? I hope I did not confuse everyone reading this a I am very confused.
Hope someone can help.

John

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I have a file with say about 700 records and when I list all in my textbox, it only shows roughly showes 300 and does not show the rest (and it truncates the last record in the middle).  I have the multiline set to true. I'll try the listbox/list view and see what happens. Thank for the reply-

John

I don't know if I remember correctly but the TextBox is limited to 32000 (or 64000) characters, so once you reach this limit the text is truncated. as suggested by Keithuk you should try using a listbox, it will surely work better!

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John wrote:
I have a file with say about 700 records and when I list all in my textbox, it only shows roughly showes 300 and does not show the rest (and it truncates the last record in the middle).  I have the multiline set to true. I'll try the listbox/list view and see what happens.

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I'll give it a try. Is there a way to add the context of a file in the listbox on load - like... c:\test\data.dat with 10 fields in the record? .... just tried it but data did not show in listbox. What am I doing wrong?

try this code if it helps,

create a new project with a form, add reference to Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6 and add a listview to your form, then add this code, then try to load your records inside the listview

Option Explicit Private Sub Form_Load()     Dim i As Integer     Dim mItem As ListItem          For i = 1 To 10         ListView1.ColumnHeaders.Add , , "Column " & i     Next     ListView1.View = lvwReport     'load data inside list     'repeat this code for every record of your file to     'fill the ten fields of the row     Set mItem = ListView1.ListItems.Add(, , "data 1")     For i = 2 To 10         mItem.SubItems(i - 1) = "data " & i     Next     '-------------------------- End Sub Private Sub Form_Resize()     ListView1.Move 0, 0, ScaleWidth, ScaleHeight End Sub

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