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    syncing tabpages to listview lines

    Some of you may remember that I wrote a program that read in a bunch of lines from a text file, parsed the data on each line, and displayed the results on tab pages, one tab page per line of data. It went something like this:

    File:
    Code:
    Line1 yaddayaddayadda
    Line2 blahblahblah
    Line3 spamspamspamspam
    Then the program would make 3 tab pages and list the data like this:

    Tabpage1:
    Code:
    HEADER   Line1
    ELEMENT1 yadda
    ELEMENT2 yadda
    ELEMENT3 yadda
    Tabpage2:
    Code:
    HEADER   Line2
    ELEMENT1 blah
    ELEMENT2 blah
    ELEMENT3 blah
    Tabpage3:
    Code:
    HEADER   Line3
    ELEMENT1 spam
    ELEMENT2 spam
    ELEMENT3 spam
    ELEMENT4 spam
    What I would like to do is take each line of data and put it in a listview, then as a tabpage is selected, the corresponding line in the listview would get highlighted. So if I am looking at Tabpage 3, then Line3 would be highlighted.

    My problem is that I don't quite know where to begin. Building the listview would not be a big deal. I have to read each line in to parse it anyway, it would only take a line or two of code to throw it in a listview.

    My main question is where would I put the code that detects which tab page is selected and highlights the line in the listview? Would this be in the tabcontrol, or what?

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    BUMP!

    Please someone? I'm still at a loss here.

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    Alright.

    So I figured most of this out. My program adds tabpages dynamically because I never know how many lines an input file will have. What I did with that is I added an index counter (tpindex) to assign a tabindex to each tabpage.
    VB Code:
    1. TmpTabPage.TabIndex = tpindex

    Also, I throw the string read in from the input file (InputStr) into a listbox on form 2 which I declared in a module. As above I assinged it an index (lbindex). In retrospect, I probably should have used tpindex instead.
    VB Code:
    1. Frm2.ListBox1.Items.Add(InputStr)
    2. Frm2.ListBox1.SelectedIndex = lbindex

    Then I added this to detect when the selected tabpage changes. (lbflag is a flag that prevents this code from running until the input file has been loaded into the application, otherwise it has problems)
    VB Code:
    1. Private Sub TabControl1_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TabControl1.SelectedIndexChanged
    2.         If lbflag = 1 Then
    3.             Frm2.ListBox1.SelectedIndex = Me.TabControl1.SelectedIndex
    4.         End If
    5. End Sub

    I had planned on swapping the line
    VB Code:
    1. Frm2.ListBox1.SelectedIndex = Me.TabControl1.SelectedIndex
    for use with the listbox. (I want to be able to click on the listbox and the corresponding tabpage would be selected) but I couldn't figure out how to reference form 1. Any Ideas?

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