Scripting

I have a message box that shows a list of values on a button script with an OK button at bottom. Working fine until the list is too long to fit on the screen. Is there a way to add a scroll feature? Or do I need a different type of box? They just need to view the list.

I don't think you can do that with messageboxes. Can you break the message into two boxes?

Are you using MsgBox or MessageBox? The former has a limit of 1,024 whereas the latter has many times more effectively limited by the screen size.

Using MessageBox

The only other output option I use is to put up a minimalist Web page (no menu or command bars) with the text which will have scroll bars. It's not elegant, but sometimes fills the need.

Or show more than one item per line (maybe 2 or 3 columns) on the messagebox.

@SteveIwanowski How would I do multiple columns?

The easiest way would be to collect the entire list into an array, and then build the string that is shown by the messagebox. Something like this: Dim arrItems : str = """" : count = 0 arrItems = array(""Item1"",""Item2"",""Item3"",""Item4"",""Item5"") For Each x In arrItems str = str & x & vbTab If count Mod 2 Then str = str & vbCrLf count = count + 1 Next Msgbox str

@DanBurleson, for your web output, are you building an HTA file, or actually generating an HTML file on a server for display?

Neither, I just spawn an IE application on the client and write HTML to it with the Document.Writeln method.

Very cool! Sorry to hijack your thread, @DanaYoung