VB list Box homework help

[awaj]

Hopefully someone can help me out in like 4 hours.

The assignment is in VB 2005 and consists of several steps. the first is to get something selected in a list box to appear in a label when a button is clicked. I got that coded with out a problem. The next part of the assignment is where I have trouble. We are supposed to take multiple items from the list box and insert them into the label. I tried Me.Label.Text = Me.xListBox.SelectedItems.ToString and got a strange output. System.Windows.Forms.ListBox+SelectedObjectColecti onthanks for the help.

for those who are interested, the code looks like

Private Sub xMultiButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles xMultiButton.Click
Me.xResultLabel.Text = Nothing

Me.xResultLabel.Text = Me.xNamesListBox.SelectedItems.ToString

End Sub

[Paul Komski]

It sounds like you need a multi select listbox and then loop through the items just collecting the selected items into a string to display as a label's text.


Private Sub ListBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ListBox1.SelectedIndexChanged
Dim intN As Integer, strCarry As String
strCarry = ""
For intN = 0 To Me.ListBox1.Items.Count - 1
If Me.ListBox1.GetSelected(intN) Then
strCarry = Me.ListBox1.Items.Item(intN).ToString & " " & strCarry
End If
Next intN
Me.Label1.Text = strCarry
End Sub

[awaj]

thanks, I'll give it a try and post back with results.

[awaj]

Thank you for the help, I had to modify it so it worked with the click button. I wish I had thought of that for the code... Why did I get this message anyways?System.Windows.Forms.ListBox+SelectedObjec tColection

[Paul Komski]

As you type-in me.xListBox.SelectedItems and then add a dot you should get a drop down list. When you scroll down to the bottom and select (by single click) the .ToString value its description should be briefly shown to you in a message baloon. The same is obviously true of any item. The items collection (that I used) and the selecteditems collection (that you used) of a list box are two distinctly different collections.

An image of these results for the object you referenced in your original text is shown below. That should give you your answer.

[awaj]

ok, thank you for the explination of what happened