VB Question
 

I am having a difficult time with something that must be really simple - I just have no background with VB.

I have a list box that I populated with the NAMES of certain items. I now want to select the item (not the name).

I am a little more than frustrated... Is there anyone who can help with this?

What are the items you talk about? A listbox can only contain names, if those names represent some objects somewhere else, you need to be able to reference those objects using the names selected in your listbox...

selection in a simple listbox is controlled by the "listindex" property. it's zero-based, so the first item in the list is listindex = 0. if no items in the list are selected, listindex = -1.

hope it helps!

Thanks very much for the assistance zen_tom and 2sheds - I used a loop to match the strings to the objects.

Thanks

create a form with a listbox (list1) a label (label1) and enter the code



Private Sub Form_Load()
List1.AddItem "test1"
List1.AddItem "test2"
List1.AddItem "test3"
List1.AddItem "test4"
List1.AddItem "test5"
' this will add 5 entries into the list box

End Sub

Private Sub List1_Click()
Label1.Caption = "the item you selected is: " & List1.List(List1.ListIndex) & Chr(10) & Chr(13) & " Its index associated with it is: " & List1.ListIndex

'on the event that the list box is clicked, it will change the caption of the label using the listindex of list1.
'CHR(10) & CHR(13) is a 'return'

End Sub




this should give you a decent understanding of the list box.