Help with Select Case Statement

[hipopony66]

Ok, I have used this one in a while. I usually just use IF...THEN statements. How should I set this up?

Select Case
Case 1   ' Option button 1 is selected on my form
              'do stuff here
 
Case 2  ' Option button 2 is selected
 
etc.
 
 
Enc Select

I got an erro after I typed "Select Case" and hit enter. Something like expected expression. what am I leaving out?

[hipopony66]

I can't type today!!!!!!!!!!

[peet]

[Microbasic]

Select Case [i]Expression[/i]
    Case 1
        'Do Something
    Case ...
        '...
    Case Else
        '...
End Select

[MrPolite]

Originally posted by hipopony66
Ok, I have used this one in a while. I usually just use IF...THEN statements. How should I set this up?

Select Case
Case 1   ' Option button 1 is selected on my form
              'do stuff here
 
Case 2  ' Option button 2 is selected
 
etc.
 
 
Enc Select

I got an erro after I typed "Select Case" and hit enter. Something like expected expression. what am I leaving out?

hopefuly you didnt spell it "Enc Select" in your code

[hipopony66]

I spelled END SELECT. Do I not need select case for this purpose? I need to do something different depending on which one of 6 option buttons are selected.

[Microbasic]

The If...ElseIf...ElseIf...ElseIf...ElseIf...Else loop is better in this case. Because the optionbuttons' values are stored in different variables, you should NOT use a Select statement but a nested if.

[MartinLiss]

I disagree with Microbasic because he is overlooking the very useful but under-used Select Case True.
In this case it would be used something like this

Select Case True
    Case Opt1.Value = True
 
    Case Opt2.Value = True
 
etc.
 
 
End Select

[hipopony66]

Thanks Martin, I think that's what I need. How bout this though? I've heard good a bad things about this. What if I created a control array with 6 option buttons called optWhatToDo, and then use a Select case statement with the index values of the control? Can anyone say anything good or bad about control arrays?? The VB class I took last semester used them a lot, but I never used them before the class and rarely do now.

[BuggyProgrammer]

control arrays save memory if you are using labels to have a static usage(they won't change). they can sometimes be very useful and can save you changing many subs of the same controls with almost the same code.