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Hi Netters,

                I need some help in List Boxes. I wanted to display four strings in a list box, at a specified column position.

        For example,

        -------------------------------------------------------
        john            26              male            graduate
        newton          23              male            graduate
        mary            25              female          graduate

I tried to concatenate these four strings with tab space in between and then
display as a single string in a list box. But the tab space did not work. Is
there any other way that I can display four strings in List Box at a specified
column positions. i

                Thanks in advance.

                                                Jay........

The tabs did not work because you need to send the list box a lb_SetTabStops
message, as well has creating it with the lbs_ style that causes it to obey
tabstops.  I can't remember the precise names.

Alternatively, make the list box lbs_OwnerDraw, and then use TabbedTextOut to
print the data as part of you response to wm_DrawItem.  This has the advantage
that you are no longer limited to 32k of text in the list box, although you must
of course keep track of the strings elsewhere.

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