I have a listbox that fills an MDI child window which I use to display
error messages (align=alClient, and a double click goes to the point of
error in another window). Sometimes the messages are too long to fit in
the available width, but I can't find any way to add horizontal scrolling
to the listbox, and it means I can't see some (or most) of the message...

Can anyone help?

TIA,

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Try:

sendmessage(listbox1.handle,lb_sethorizontalextent,width,0);

where width is the pixel width of your longest line.

--
Kent Briggs, kbri...@briggsoft.com
Briggs Softworks, http://www.briggsoft.com

Thanks. This presumably involves doing a GetTextExtent on the listbox
to get the pixel width? Which means I need a device context? Which
means doing GetDC for Screen or some such? Am I going in the right
direction here?

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You could, but it would probably be easier to use

wd := aListBox.Canvas.TextWidth (theText);

Thanks, Bruce; between you and Kent Briggs you've cracked it. There
was one other detail I needed:

  wd := (wd * Screen.PixelsPerInch) div 72;

On a 1024x768 display, the pixel size needs adjusting, or the tail end
of the line is still missing. I've had to do this in a couple of other
places in my app, and it made the tail end of the line visible in this
case too.

Again, many thanks.

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