[RESOLVED] How to check if item your trying to input is in flexgrid

[enjoyincubus]

I want to check if the item im trying to input is in the flexgrid

example i have a keypress on textbox1

ill input 1 on that textbox, when i press enter it will check if it is already in the flexgrid else if its not, it will display what i inputted on textbox1.

could really need some help on this one

[brucevde]

Loop through every Cell in the FlexGrid and compare its value to the TextBox value.

    
    Dim row As Long
    Dim col As Long
    Dim exists as boolean

    With Me.MSFlexGrid1
        For row = .FixedRows To .Rows - 1
            For col = .FixedCols To .Cols - 1
                 'use vbBinaryCompare for a Case Sensitive search
                 If StrComp(Text1.Text, Me.MSFlexGrid1.TextMatrix(row, col), vbTextCompare) = 0 Then
                    MsgBox "Data already exists in grid"
                    exists = True
                    Exit For
                 End If
            Next
            If exists Then Exit For 'already found the data no need to continue the loop
        Next

        If Not exists then
            MsgBox "Need to add data to the grid. The question is where?"
        End If
    End With

[enjoyincubus]

Loop through every Cell in the FlexGrid and compare its value to the TextBox value.

    
    Dim row As Long
    Dim col As Long
    Dim exists as boolean

    With Me.MSFlexGrid1
        For row = .FixedRows To .Rows - 1
            For col = .FixedCols To .Cols - 1
                 'use vbBinaryCompare for a Case Sensitive search
                 If StrComp(Text1.Text, Me.MSFlexGrid1.TextMatrix(row, col), vbTextCompare) = 0 Then
                    MsgBox "Data already exists in grid"
                    exists = True
                    Exit For
                 End If
            Next
            If exists Then Exit For 'already found the data no need to continue the loop
        Next

        If Not exists then
            MsgBox "Need to add data to the grid. The question is where?"
        End If
    End With

thanks! ill try it

col is fixed by the way. it will be added in the first column always, after the item is added the row will be incremented by 1 and col will always stay in 1.

the item will be added in the next available space.

EDIT: thanks!, really worked, got 1 question, what is .FixedRows?

[si_the_geek]

.FixedRows/.FixedCols are the number of header rows/columns, which don't scroll (normally shown in grey rather than the white of the normal cells).

As row/column numbers start at 0, the first data row/column will always be .FixedRows/.FixedCols

[enjoyincubus]

ok thanks