CEditBox or CListBox which one is better for big amout of logging data
Question
This always was a big question for me that for a very big amount of logs (like 100,000 line log) which one is better in performance, scrolling,... also consider formatting the text with color is a must.
Solution
Under the circumstances, I'd probably use a listbox.
- You can create a virtual listbox to support lots of items relatively well.
- Neither supports color1 but owner-drawn listboxes are easier.
- Edit controls are "flow" oriented, not line oriented.
1Other than one foreground and one background color.
OTHER TIPS
I've always used a read-only richedit edit control for this sort of thing because:
- You can offer the ability to copy lines to the clipboard.
- It is easy to add text formatting (colour, bold, italic, etc.)
- Writing the data to a file is simple (you can get the text using a GetWindowText call.)
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