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Re: Item limit on List control

• Posted by jjnick at cvn.com Apr 23, 2001
• 358 views

Looks like I am just going to have to do something different . . . Hmmm. . .

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Fines" <fines at macalester.edu>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Item limit on List control


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> Hmmm... How about creating several, organizing them like:
> A-D is in listbox1
> E-L is in listbox2
> ...and so on...
> This can be troublesome, especially with something like names, as there
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> a large number of last names beginning with J, few with U, etc. etc.
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> Or, you could determine the number of list boxes needed dynamically by
> dividing the number of entries by 32,767, and using that result+1 for the
> number of list boxes.
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> 32,767 sure is a huge number of items to put in a list box...Might want to
> think about a different way to do whatever you're doing...
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> Ted
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> --On Sunday, April 22, 2001 10:40 PM -0600 jjnick at cvn.com wrote:
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> > Da*n, just hit the 32,767 limit for items in a list control!  Anyway
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> > Windows 95 only: The wParam parameter is limited to 16-bit values. This
> > means list boxes cannot contain more than 32,767 items. Although the
> > number of items is restricted, the total size in bytes of the items in a
> > listbox is limited only by available memory.
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