Listbox item padding or spacing

[Scott Windmiller Participant Topics: 22 Replies: 44 Points: 0Rank: Member]

How can I add spacing between items in a listbox?

I am using it on a touchscreen and increased the font but it would be nice to have spacing between each item.

Thanks,
Scott

[Dan Potter Participant Topics: 18 Replies: 573 Points: 32Rank: Member]

You'd have to draw it yourself or just insert a null value between lines. If learning PS, the listbox is a difficult control to start with:D

I'd go with a datagridview. Bonus, if you load the data as a datatable you can easily filter the columns by year,song,album etc.

[Scott Windmiller Participant Topics: 22 Replies: 44 Points: 0Rank: Member]

Thanks. I am using the Datagridview to display the results and was using the Listbox to display a list of years and genres that you could Multi-Select, then the results would display in the datdridview. As far as I can tell, you cannot multi-select from a datagrid view. I can use a series of checkboxes for the years and genres but it was much cleaner with the listbox.
Another thing I just noticed, I am not using scrollbars for anything but rather buttons to scroll, and it does not look like the listbox can scroll via a button without selecting something from the list.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Scott

[Dan Potter Participant Topics: 18 Replies: 573 Points: 32Rank: Member]

Here's an example of filtering a datagrid. you can easily substitute a combobox for years or genres.

$form1_Load={
	
#	$Data = 1 .. 25 | %{
#		
#		[pscustomobject]@{
#			
#			songname = 'song' + $_
#			genre = 'rap','rock','classical','jazz' | get-random
#			year = [string](1980..2017 | Get-Random)
#			index = [string](100..200 | get-random)
#		}
#	
#	}
	
	$script:Itunes = New-Object -ComObject iTunes.Application
	$script:LibrarySource = $Itunes.sources.ItemByName('Library')
	$script:libraryplaylist = $librarysource.playlists.itembyname('Dan''s Music')
	$script:tracks = $libraryplaylist.tracks | select name, album, artist, genre, @{n = 'year'; e = { [string]$_.year }}
	
	$script:dt = ConvertTo-DataTable -InputObject $tracks
	$datagridview1.DataSource = $dt
	
}



$textbox1_TextChanged={
	
	$filter = $textbox1.text
	$DT.defaultview.rowfilter = "year like '%$filter%' or genre like '%$filter%'"
	
	
}

[Scott Windmiller Participant Topics: 22 Replies: 44 Points: 0Rank: Member]

Thanks for the example! I can get it to filter, I was more looking at filtering on multiple at a time . I want to be able to select multiple genres and years and have it show the results (like 80s, 90's and Rock). I have this working with the listbox just fine (and had it working with checkboxes), I was just hoping to be able to make the items in the listbox more touch friendly. I increased the font but was hoping to put a little more space between each one and be able to scroll but that does not seem possible.

[Dan Potter Participant Topics: 18 Replies: 573 Points: 32Rank: Member]

easy, use comboboxes or listboxes. Change the filter to AND or OR based on if selected.

Like so. The function is mininiscule now but I always like to start off with them if I anticipate it getting more complex down the road. You could supply multiple parameters and build your filter inside the function then pass it to the rowfilter.

function get-year {
	
param($year)
	
	switch ($year) {
		
		1980{'198' }
		1990{'199'}
		2000{'200' }
		2010{'201'}
		
	}
}

$form1_Load={
	
	$tracks = 1 .. 25 | %{
		
		[pscustomobject]@{
			
			songname = 'song' + $_
			genre = 'rap','rock','classical','jazz' | get-random
			year = [string](1980..2017 | Get-Random)
			index = [string](100..200 | get-random)
		}
	
	}
	
	$script:dt = ConvertTo-DataTable -InputObject $tracks
	$datagridview1.DataSource = $dt
	
}


$combobox1_SelectedIndexChanged = {

	$genrefilter = $combobox1.selecteditem
	$DT.defaultview.rowfilter = "genre like '%$genrefilter%'"
	
}


$combobox2_SelectedIndexChanged = {
	
	$yearfilter = get-year $combobox2.SelectedItem
	$genrefilter = $combobox1.selecteditem
	
	if ($combobox1.SelectedIndex -gt 0) {
		$DT.defaultview.rowfilter = "genre like '%$genrefilter%' and year like '%$yearfilter%'"
	}
	
}

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