Textarea in a listbox

Targets macOS
1

I want to display a string of text in a cell of a listbox. I cannot get this to work, it displays on line of the text with … after. I have changed celltypeat to texture and no change?

2

Add an event handler to the listbox for the “CellTextPaint” event, and then you can draw the cells text at the x,y parameter passed in.

Eg

dim s as string

//ensure row and column are valid have text, etc

s = me.CellValueAt(row,column)

if s = "" then return false

//Draw text wrapped to fit within the column
g.DrawText(s,x,y,g.Width - x,false)

return true

You will NOT get any …'ing here which is a lot more tricky

3

Graham, Thank you that is a great help. I am actually populating several cells within a one row table, will this still work? is the text paint triggered for every cell and so x,y, are right?

4

Graham, I’ve done it thank you so much. Works exactly as I wanted, thank you!!

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