hello, i am a student just learning VB and the book that my class is using does not have any thing about scrollbars, and i cant get it to work, can someone please explane how to make it work right (either through explanation or throught example). thank you.

: hello, i am a student just learning VB and the book that my class is using does not have any thing about scrollbars, and i cant get it to work, can someone please explane how to make it work right (either through explanation or throught example). thank you.
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I'm hardly a VB guru, but I'll try to offer something - for VB anyway... dunno about .Net. If you're using the built in controls, then

VScroll and HScroll both have a max and min property that can be set at run time. For example, if you create a project that has a list box, and a vertical scroll bar for a class of 5 students, and each value of the scroll bar represents a single student that is in the listbox then

Form_Load

   Dim i As Integer
   
   For i = 0 To 4
      List1.AddItem "Student " & CStr(i + 1)
   Next
      
   vscroll1.Min = 0
   vscroll1.Max = 4
   vscroll1.Value = 0

   List1.Selected(vscroll1.Value) = True
------------------

VScroll1_Change

List1.Selected(VScroll1.Value) = True ' choose the desired student
------------------

If you ran that, you *should* see the highlighted item in the list box change in relation to the current value of the scroll bar.

thanks, i will try that.

i tried that bit of code and got it to work but when i tried to apply it to what i am doing i could not get it to work.

in short, i am trying to get a scroll bar to work with a large amount of text, i am not sure if i should use a label or an OLE. also something i forgot to mention, i am useing a student version which has some of the features disabled.

thanks

: i tried that bit of code and got it to work but when i tried to apply it to what i am doing i could not get it to work.
:
: in short, i am trying to get a scroll bar to work with a large amount of text, i am not sure if i should use a label or an OLE. also something i forgot to mention, i am useing a student version which has some of the features disabled.
:
: thanks
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Just put all the text in a textbox, and enable scrollbars from the TextBox properties. If you don't want the text to be editted, just set the Locked property to True.

Using Label with external scrollbar to scroll the text is somewhat complicated, so don't look into that right now.

Hope I helped,
Nikolay Semov

thank you, i will try that.

FMP

everything i have done has not worked, might you have any other sugestions? thank you.

FMP