>I'm new to Palm programming and find it rather strange - so this is
>possibly a silly question ...
>I have a list of about 1000 words. I want to put them on the screen
>and let the user scroll >through and select one. Do I use a table or
>a list control (or some other) to do this? Tables
>are >overcomplicated for this?
I'm a big fan of lists and would recommend that you use one in this case.
>Even though you do get an LstSelectEvent, it isn't really
>useful since the scrollbar is almost on top of the list and the user will
>almostalways hit the item instead of the scrollbar ( at least me
>:)). And though
You can disable the scroll bars by making the number of list items
the same as the number of visible items. The Scroll arrows never
appear. The tradeoff is that you have to keep track of where you are
in the list, but that's easy.
>the list control doesn't automatically handle the up/down
>buttons - you have to add code.
You can add that support with about six lines of code. It's quite easy.
Regards,
Steve Mann
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