You’ll often want to display a checkbox-style listbox to show users the values they have selected in an underlying database. However, you don’t want to allow users to change the selections-that is, to change which boxes they checked. You can’t disable the listbox because that stops the user from scrolling the list to see which items they checked. You can’t use Locked, because the listbox doesn’t have a Locked property.
Here’s one solution: Paint a Command button with the caption “Click to toggle enabled property” and a listbox on a form, then change the listbox style to 1-Checkbox. Add this code:
Option ExplicitDim mbDisabled As BooleanPrivate Sub Command1_Click() mbDisabled = Not mbDisabledEnd SubPrivate Sub List1_ItemCheck(Item As Integer) If mbDisabled Then List1.Selected(Item) = Not List1.Selected(Item) End IfEnd SubWhen mbDisabled is set to True, the changes made by the user to the listbox selections are immediately reversed. It will appear as if the selections haven’t changed at all, and the list is still scrollable.
