[SOLVED] Display two columns in list?

[littlebigman]

Hello

I just need to display a two-column list of items with Name + Phone number and let the user select one or more items and click OK.

I went through the samples in \Examples\Helpfile\, and it seems like the ListView object does the job but it's pretty complicated (_GUICtrlListView_CancelEditLabel.au3).

I was wondering if I couldn't just use the basic ListBox object instead, use a TAB or some caracter to separate the two items, and use a regex to extract the phone number of all selected lines when the user clicks on OK? Not as pretty as a real grid, but it probably makes for easier code.

If that sounds like a good idea, would someone have some code handy that I could check?

Thank you.

Edited October 4, 2010 by littlebigman

[littlebigman]

Mmm... The app crashes when I add strings

Global $arr[2] = ["John" + @TAB + "123", "Jane" + @TAB + "456"]

...

$List1 = GUICtrlCreateList("", 8, 24, 241, 136, BitOR($LBS_STANDARD, $LBS_EXTENDEDSEL))
Local $i
For $i = 0 to UBound($arr) - 1
    ;CRASH: autoit3.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close.
    _GUICtrlListBox_AddString($List1, $arr[$i])
Next

[littlebigman]

Turns out AutoIT doesn't allow "+" to concatenate strings, but rather "&":

Global $arr[2] = ["John" & @TAB & "123", "Jane" & @TAB & "456"]

However, the TAB character is ignored in the ListBox control, so the two "columns" are displayed with no space" between them. Does this control simply not allow this character, or is there some switch I should use when creating it?

[Melba23]

littlebigman,

You cannot have columns in a List control, you need a ListView. But you do not necessarily need the ListView UDF, AutoIt has a native ListView control which you use like this:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>

$hGUI = GUICreate("Test", 500, 500)

$hLV = GUICtrlCreateListView("Col 1|Col2", 10, 10, 480, 300)

For $i = 1 To 10
    GUICtrlCreateListViewItem("Item " & $i & "|SubItem " & $i, $hLV)
Next

GUISetState()

While 1
    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
    EndSwitch
WEnd

Please ask if you have any questions.

M23

P.S. You can edit your posts to add detail - adding as many extra posts as you are at the moment is rather frowned on here.

[littlebigman]

You cannot have columns in a List control, you need a ListView. But you do not necessarily need the ListView UDF, AutoIt has a native ListView control which you use like this:

Thanks much for the code. I'll give it a shot.

P.S. You can edit your posts to add detail - adding as many extra posts as you are at the moment is rather frowned on here.

Right, but I do this on purpose: In case some other newbie looks in the archives months from now, it's easier to quickly find an answer if a thread only deals with a single problem

[Melba23]

littlebigman,

It is not the number of topics, but the number of immediately successive individual posts within them - like the first 3 above.

M23