ListBox - urgent please

Hi,
I have a ListBox and two Buttons on my form.
I need to store the following data for 10 students:

Name, month of birth, year of birth

I want to show student's NAMES ONLY in the ListBox sorted:
- by month they were born
Or
- by year they were born
depending on button pressed.

I think .ItemData should be used.

Thanks

Is the ListBox connected to a datadase?

Hmm, is it a DB? Bound or unbound controls?
If you have a set number of students that will not change, you can set the listbox listindex at design time.
The listindex will begin with "0" and continue until all the students are listed.
You can also use the sorted property if you want them alphbeticly or whatever, but without knowing how the students names are stored, (database, random file, sequential file) it is a difficult question to answer.
Good Luck!
Lee

No,
It's not connected to the database.
It's just a listbox, 2 buttons. One button sorts by month, the other sorts by year. I need to disply student's names in the listbox sorted either by month they were born in or the year depending which button is clicked.

Data sample
Name Mo Yr

"John", 04, 84
"Ted", 12, 82
"Steve",07, 80

If I click on Command1 then the listbox will show names which birth months are from the earliest:
John
Steve
Ted

By clicking on Command2 the listbox will show names which birth Years are from the earliest:
Steve
Ted
John

Thanks again

you could add the names, in their proper order at the start

i could write some code if you want

You should store the itemdata like yymm, for instance 8006 for june 1980 or 9212 for december 1992. No problem with yyyymm either, but no commas.

Retrieving the year:
int(list1.Itemdata(index)/100)
Retrieving the month:
list1.Itemdata(index) mod 100
Setting the date
list1.Itemdata(index) = year *100 + month

Now i spent some time modifying Sort_shell for this purpose, and i don't have accesss to vb, so there might be bugs, try it!
[code]
Sub Sort_shell(Sortmethod as boolean)
Dim n&, i&, j&, k&, a1$, a2&(1),b1$,b2(1),x%
x=-Sortmethod
n = UBound(a)
k = n \ 2
While k > 0
For i = 0 To n - k
j = i
a1=list1.list(j):b1=list1.list(j+k)
a2(0)=int(list1.Itemdata(j)/100):b2(0)=int(list1.Itemdata(j+k)/100)
a2(1)=list1.Itemdata(j) mod 100:b2(1)=list1.Itemdata(j+k) mod 100
While (j >= 0) And (a2(x) > b2(x))
list1.list(j)=a1:list1.list(j+k)=b1
h=list1.itemdata(j)
list1.itemdata(j)=list1.itemdata(j+k)
list1.itemdata(j+k)=h
If j > k Then
j = j - k
Else
j = 0
End If
Wend
Next i
k = k \ 2
Wend
End Sub

Alright, you are putting way too much thought into this.
Try this!

Option Explicit

Private Sub cmdMonths_Click()
lstNames.Clear
lstNames.AddItem "Fred"
lstNames.AddItem "John"
lstNames.AddItem "Alex"
' enter the names in order you want them to be in
'set the sorted property to false at design time
End Sub

Private Sub cmdYears_Click()
lstNames.Clear
lstNames.AddItem "Alex"
lstNames.AddItem "John"
lstNames.AddItem "Fred"
' enter the names in order you want them to be in
'set the sorted property to false at design time
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
lstNames.Clear 'ensures the listbox is empty as form loads
End Sub


~Hope this helps!
Lee

Code:

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'this is the long way home but it works
'your information is stored in a text file (myfile.txt)

'  "John", 04, 84
'  "Ted", 12, 82
'  "Steve",07, 80
'  "Mary",01,75
'  "Johnny",04,91
'  "Larry",02,92
'  "Maggie",02,88
'  "Annie",04,89
'  "Angelo",08,86
'  "Gene",09,86
 
 
Option Explicit
'

Private Sub Command1_Click()
'sort and list by month
'
'clear the listbox
List1.Clear
'
Dim sFile As String, intNum As Integer
sFile = "C:\MyFile.txt"
intNum = FreeFile

Dim myArrM()  'used to store an assembled version of file
Dim i As Integer
Dim var1 As String, var2 As String
Dim var3 As String, var4 As String

'get the information from the file
Open sFile For Input As intNum
'loop to eof
  Do While Not EOF(intNum)
'redim preserve your array
  ReDim Preserve myArrM(i)
'read the file information
  Input #intNum, var1, var2, var3
'rearrange the information as per month/year/name and join
    var4 = var2 & var3 & var1
'load the new string into your array
    myArrM(i) = var4
'increment the array
    i = i + 1
  Loop
'sort the new array
  Call SortStr(myArrM)
'after sorting the array relist it and extract the name

  For intNum = LBound(myArrM) To UBound(myArrM)
      var1 = myArrM(intNum)
      var2 = Len(var1)
      var3 = Right(var1, var2 - 4)  '4 is constant mmyy, the rest is the name
'display the names in List1
      List1.AddItem var3
    Next
   
End Sub


Sub SortStr(iArray As Variant)
'sort the array by alpha..the array is a new string mmyyname
    Dim Loop1 As Long
    Dim Loop2 As Long
    Dim lTemp As String
 
    For Loop1 = UBound(iArray) To LBound(iArray) Step -1
      For Loop2 = LBound(iArray) + 1 To Loop1

        If iArray(Loop2 - 1) > iArray(Loop2) Then
          lTemp = iArray(Loop2 - 1)
          iArray(Loop2 - 1) = iArray(Loop2)
          iArray(Loop2) = lTemp
        End If
      Next Loop2
    Next Loop1
End Sub


Private Sub Command2_Click()
'sort and list by year
'
'clear the listbox
List1.Clear
'
Dim sFile As String, intNum As Integer
sFile = "C:\Myfile.txt"
intNum = FreeFile
'array to store the new arrangement of file information
Dim myArrY()
'variables used in string and file manipulation
Dim i As Integer
Dim var1 As String, var2 As String, var3 As String
Dim myvar4 As String
'open the file and read it into the array
Open sFile For Input As intNum
  Do While Not EOF(intNum)
'redim preserve your array
  ReDim Preserve myArrY(i)
 
  Input #intNum, var1, var2, var3
    myvar4 = var3 & var2 & var1
    myArrY(i) = myvar4
    i = i + 1
  Loop
'call to sort the new array yymmname
  Call SortStr(myArrY)
'after sort extract the name and list it to the listbox
  For intNum = LBound(myArrY) To UBound(myArrY)
      var1 = myArrY(intNum)
      var2 = Len(var1)
      var3 = Right(var1, var2 - 4)
      List1.AddItem var3
    Next
   
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
    List1.Clear
End Sub

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