From: jpdelprat AT teaser DOT fr (Jean-Pierre Delprat)
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Subject: Re: JPTUI Listbox Question
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 20:14:27 GMT
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Tim Lloyd <tlloyd AT zetnet DOT co DOT uk> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>This is a simple question for those of you that use the JPTUI 
>interface libraries.
>
>I have created my interface, no probs. However I need to read in a 
>file line by line and add each line to a JPTUI listbox.
>
>Here is the code for adding items manually:
>
>TListItem     ListBoxItems[]= {
>  {"Item 1",LI_NOATTR},
>  {"Item 2",LI_NOATTR},
>  {"Item 3",LI_NOATTR},
>  {NULL,LI_NOATTR}
>};
>TListBox     ListBox (&MainWindow,2,2,20,10,"List Bo~x",ListBoxItems);
>
>I presume that I need to fill ListBoxItems[] with each line from my 
>file, however I think that may eat memory (as my text file is quite 
>large) so loading it directly into the listbox might be a better option.
>
>However I'm only a beginner with C++, I'd really apreciate some help 
>with this one as I'm pretty clueless as to where to go from here.
>
>I'm using JPTUI 3.xx.
>
>Thanks in advance, Tim Lloyd.
>
>
>

TListBox is derived from TSimpleList which is derived from TList. So
you can use any method of one of this class.

Search for m_add_item and m_insert_item (methods of TSimpleList.

I advise that you get the last version (4.0a).  The doc has been
formatted and I've removed many mistakes.

Jeepy
Jeepy (Jean-Pierre Delprat)
jpdelprat AT teaser DOT fr
www.teaser.fr/~jpdelprat (JPTUI home page)