Listbox column widths and scrollbar

[Jeff_Tullin]

I found a solution from 2018
Astonishingly, it was one of Emile’s !

FYI: Setting an Horizontal ScrollBar to a Listbox

Eureka I am fine tuning a project and had enough to have troubles with a Listbox with the column widths / lack of Horizontal ScrollBar… Time to make changes there ! So, I decided to only add the Horizontal ScrollBar. That requires a Boolean to be set ON (ScrollBarHorizontal) AND all the values of the ColumnWidths be a set of fixed values in Pixels. Also, by default, Xojo set ColumnWidths to * followed by a number of commas (one for each column), so not what I wanted. [According to the …

It transpires that no matter WHAT you do to a list box, that horizontal bar will never appear unless you change the columnwidths string property to something which is full of specific values.