Vlist- A Virtual List for FreeBasic

[James Klutho]

This is a port of Borje Hagsten PBVlist to Freebasic.  I love this little control for the program simplicity.  You attach an array of strings and it is part of a list box.  It complies to both 32 and 64 bits and can use dynamic ANSI string or fixed length wide strings.  I use this control in my apps all the time.  It is in the form of an include file like GRD and EZP.  I stayed away from dynamic wide strings here to keep this straight forward.  Hopefully it is clear how to switch between ANSI and Unicode.

I plan to expand this control to make a virtual tree control (like I have done in Powerbasic).  The windows tree control bogs down after about 10,000 items which is not enough room for me.

The only thing I have left to due (besides the tree control) before rewriting my petroleum app in FreeBasic is to write a wrapper to toggle between Jose's SQlite and ODBC classes.  The SQlite is for local databases and the ODBC is for multi-user heavy iron server databases.  My hope is that with disciplined queries I can seamlessly toggle which between the two.  We will see.

I plan to use Jose's framework for my app.  Thank you again Jose.

[Paul Squires]

Thanks Jim...and it's great to see you back into programming again