[2005] Creating an organizer

[knicksfan426]

Well, I've came up with a clever little idea of mine to make an organizer for myself for my classes. I don't really feel like explaining how exactly it works so I've included a picture, you should get the idea.



I've added random labels of random classes as a test. When the add button is clicked, combobox1 and textbox1 become visible. In the scenario that "English" is selected from the combobox, whatever is entered into the textbox will go directly into listbox1 since listbox1 is right under English. Here's the code.

1 Dim text As String
       2 text = TextBox1.Text

       3 ComboBox1.Visible = True
       4 TextBox1.Visible = True

       5 Select Case True
       6     Case ComboBox1.SelectedItem = "English"
       7         If text <> "" Then
       8             ListBox1.Show(text)
       9         End If
       10 End Select
  11  End Sub

I know where the error is but I dont know what to do to fix it. What do i fix in line 8?

[knicksfan426]

Nevermind my previous post, i changed the listboxes to all textboxes and it works. I just want to know, how do i enter 2 separate lines of text without the previous line disappearing?

[sparrow1]

Hi,

Make your textbox multine = True in the properties of your textbox.

Wkr,

sparrow1

[knicksfan426]

Hi,

Make your textbox multine = True in the properties of your textbox.

Wkr,

sparrow1

It already is. It still doesn't go to the next line. I probably have to add some coding for it as well but I have no idea what it is.

[Negative0]

When you set the textbox value, you need to keep the previous value:

TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & Environment.NewLine() & "Next Value"

or more succinctly:

TextBox1.Text &= Environment.NewLine() & WebBrowser1.StatusText

[knicksfan426]

Thanks guys but after playing around some more, i got everything to work with listboxes which makes everything easy. One question i still have is, how do i make a new window pop up when i click the add button, and i dont mean a message box.

[Negative0]

Create a new form object. Then you can create an instance like this:

Dim f as New Form2()
f.ShowDialog()

[knicksfan426]

How do i create a new form object?

[Negative0]

Add a new form to your project. Right click on your project and select add->Windows Form.

[knicksfan426]

K got it! How do I link the forms together?

[Vectris]

Just to point out what was wrong with line 8:

ListBox.Show() simply makes the listbox visible after you use .Hide(). Also you can't put text in between the () as the command has no parameters.

I'm guessing you wanted to add "text" to the ListBox's items. In that case you would simply use ListBox1.Add(text).

Also I highly suggest you don't use the variable "text" as your program will confuse it for Me.Text which will randomly change the Title Bar text of your program. Just adding a random letter to the begging, such as "ctext" will solve that problem.

[Vectris]

K got it! How do I link the forms together?

What do you mean by "link"? You can't really link forms, if you want to show one on the click of a button, just use the name of the form and .Show().

[knicksfan426]

I want the information that was entered into the textbox in form2 to go into the listbox that is in form1. Thats why i wanna link.

[Negative0]

Expose a property on Form2 that is public. Then after the show dialog, you can access that property and do whatever you want with it.

[knicksfan426]

What do u mean "Expose a property on Form2 that is public."?

[Negative0]

This link shows you the basics of properties:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...classes_topic3