CCRP DragList Control for VB5

Designer: Karl E. Peterson
Tuesday, January 06, 2004

VB5 COMPILE

Version:
Beta 1

Filename: ccrpdrg.zip

Download:
71k (w/demo and help)

REQUIREMENTS
Development:
VB5 SP2/3

Runtime:
VB5 SP2/3 runtime

HELP ONLINE
DragList Demos
DragList Reference

CONTACT
karl@mvps.org

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REVISION HISTORY
VB5 Release, Beta 1
July 2, 1998

Every so often, in the pursuit of developing a control, our developers come up with another one to test certain features. The CCRP DragList Control, created by Karl E. Peterson, is such a control, and is now available compiled for use with VB6, as well as the original VB5 SP2/3 version.

CCRP DragList Control

Not a scratch control created with CreateWindowEx, the CCRP DragList Control is a regular Visual Basic Listbox. Along with most of the regular listbox features, the DragList provides additional features like allowing the user to reorder items as needed, to traverse the list with built-in mousewheel support, and to assign the contents of the DragList to a string array, or another list box, or the list's contents to a variant all in one call.

New in This Release (v1.00.0047)

Fixed a ByVal problem on SelectedItem and RemoveItem. Compatibility with projects using build 1.00.0045 should not be affected.

Properties

ItemHeight property.

HorizontalExtent property that can be used to provide a horizontal scrollbar.

AutoRedraw: Returns/sets whether the list display will be updated after each Add or Remove.

ContainerDraw: Returns/sets whether the drag arrow will be drawn on the control's container (as in the illustration), or appear to overtop the form background.

Contents: Returns/sets an array of data into the DragList control. Also accepts reference to another ListBox, and copies the data from that.

DragBackColor: Sets the background color of the drag indicator.

DragWidth: sets the drag background width

CanUndo: Returns whether the last drag operation can be undone.

Methods

SetTabStops method that supports several different styles

FindItem: Used to do a rapid search for the first item beginning with the specified text. Search may begin at any element.

Undo: Used to undo the last drag operation performed by the user.

Note: VB6-Compile Help
The methods and properties provided in the Visual Basic 6-compiled version of this control are identical to those found in the VB5 SP2/3 version. Although the file contains a stub .chm help file, its contents are presently under design. We wanted to bring this control to you without the delay in writing the docs. The VB5 help is included in the VB5 version zip. The VB6 help file will be uploaded at a later date.