Waiting for input.

[guitarhero14]

I have a list box to display the choices the user has and a text box below to recieve the users input. I cant seem to think of a way for the program to wait for input in the textbox besides using a InputBox. I hope i explained this well. Thank you for your help in advance.

[dRAMmer]

What do you mean by wait? Is there something that you would like to do after user-input? Is it not like the same as: program-waits-for-input-then-user-clicks-button-then-program-do-something? Or probably program waits for input then after desired length in textbox is reach program do something?

[jmcilhinney]

You have to use a Button to display the InputBox and then dismiss it again anyway, so just provide a Button for the user to press when they have finished entering data, as dRAMmer suggested. Also, please be a little more specific in your questions. We're trying to help you so please don't make us guess what the situation is.

[guitarhero14]

Sorry I was not clear enough. What i would like is the user to enter in a value in TextBox1 and then click the submit button and have the program run through an IF statement. The only problem is that there is going to many different instances of this process with different items in the listbox and i am at a loss. I have included a pic to further explain. Thanks for the input.

[jmcilhinney]

You still haven't really explained what you want to happen. You can easily use a For loop to iterate over the items in the ListBox, regardless of what they are or how many there are, and compare them to the Text in the ListBox:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        For Each item As Object In Me.ListBox1.Items
            If Me.ListBox1.GetItemText(item) = Me.TextBox1.Text Then
                MessageBox.Show("We have a match!")
                Exit For
            End If
        Next item
    End Sub

Is that the sort of thing you want to do? This is a simple example but the principle can be extrapolated to any number of scenarios. You could use a For loop instead of a For Each loop if you need to know the index of the matching item. I've also used GetItemText to account for the fact that a ListBox can contain items of any type. If you have added String objects to the ListBox then you can just use the items themselves directly, but using GetItemText is a good policy as it will work in absolutely any case.