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- Multiple Selection Listbox for Visual Basic
- Version 0.2 1/4/91 by Mark Gamber
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- One control I have needed in Visual Basic is a multiple selection listbox.
- I am assuming I am not alone by sending this into the wild blue yonder. To use
- the control in your programs, select "Add File..." from the "File" menu of
- Visual Basic and select "MULTSEL.VBX". If the control bitmap is added to the
- toolbox, you're ready to begin using the listbox.
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- Improvements have been made on the original, Version 0.1, which make this
- version far easier to use and understand. First, a quick rundown of the various
- things the control offers and then, onto an example program in Visual Basic.
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- The control is addressed as MultipleSel. Thus, the first listbox on a form
- is addresses as MultipleSel1 and so on. Adding to and removing from the list-
- -box is the same as with the standard Visual Basic listbox. For example, to add
- an item the listbox, you could use this line:
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- MultipleSel1.AddItem "We add this line"
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- To remove line 0 (the one on the top), you might use this line:
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- MultipleSel1.RemoveItem 0
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- Easy, huh? Nothing new there. Along with those familiar functions comes
- ListCount which returns the number of items in the listbox. For example:
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- num = MultipleSel1.ListCount
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- ListIndex is the first fork in the road from the standard listbox. Since there
- may be several items selected, you cannot select any particular item. Instead,
- this returns whether or not an item has been selected. For example, if we want
- to see if item four has been selected, we could use this line:
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- if MultipleSel1.ListIndex(3) then ...
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- Remember, it starts at zero so item four is indexed as three. Anyway, if the
- item was selected, the return value is TRUE (-1). If unselected, the return
- value is FALSE (0). To see if items one through ten have been selected, we could
- use this loop:
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- for i% = 0 to 9
- if MultipleSel1.ListIndex(i%) then ...
- next
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- Finally, to retrieve the text of a particular item, we use the List function.
- For example, to get the text for item zero (the top of the listbox):
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- t$ = MultipleSel1.List(0)
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- In a loop, we could use something like this:
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- for i% = 0 to 10
- if MultipleSel1.ListIndex(i%) then
- Picture1.Print MultipleSel1.List(i%)
- endif
- next
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- The above loop will print all selected items in the listbox. Nice, huh?
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- So there's a basic outline of the listbox. The example program is called
- MSELTEST.EXE and is available with this file. I suggest you look at the code
- for Command1 and Command2 buttons which is what controls the adding and testing
- of the listbox items.
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- As always, this program is free as long as you agree that I did nothing to
- ruin your life in any way. After all, it's just a simple control. I may be
- reached for questions, comments, suggestions and praise via America Online,
- mail address MarkG85. I do NOT answer phone calls as that's reserved for my
- real job. I hope you find this control as useful as I did.
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