[VB.net] Populate textboxes from listview selected items

Hi All.

I have a Form with listview of customer name. e.g. AAA, BBB, CCC, DDD, EEE. etc And 3 textboxes.

I want to be able to populate the textboxes when the user selects a customer. For example: If User selects AAA, textbox1.text = AAA, then if User selects CCC, textbox2.text = CCC etc.

I tired: (in a button on click event)
TextBox1.Text = Listview1.SelectedItems(0).Text
TextBox2.Text = Listview1.SelectedItems(1).Text
TextBox3.Text = Listview1.SelectedItems(2).Text

But this only works if the user selects 'all' 3 customers at once. I want to allow the User to populate each textboxes depending on how many they select eg. 'Upto' 3 customers .

Any ideas how i can achieve this?

Many Thanks in Advance.

The way I would go about doing this would be to have a counter which starts at 1.
Then in your button click event you would check what the counter was if its 1 then you would put the current selecteditem text into textbox1, if the counter was 2 then into textbox2 and I think you can guess where if the counter is 3 :)

So your code might look similar to this

Code:

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Public Class Form1

    Private counter As Integer

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        If ListView1.SelectedItems.Count = 1 Then
            Select Case counter
                Case 1
                    TextBox1.Text = ListView1.SelectedItems(0).Text
                Case 2
                    TextBox2.Text = ListView1.SelectedItems(0).Text
                Case 3
                    TextBox3.Text = ListView1.SelectedItems(0).Text
            End Select
            counter += 1

            'This bit of code is so that you loop round and start at 1 again
            If counter > 3 Then
                counter = 1
            End If
        Else
            MsgBox("You must select an item in order to continue")
        End If
    End Sub

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        counter = 1
    End Sub

End Class

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I've gone with the idea that you probably only want one thing selected at once, so you would probably want the listviews MultiSelect property set to false for this.

Anyway I hope that helps you

Satal :D

Hi Satal

Thanks for the help! Great concept and very clean, much better than the way i thought of doing it. :bigyello:

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No worries always happy to help :D