Distributing items across several listboxes.

[TCarter]

Hey guys, long time since I posted here. I've been working in C#, and have yet to find a decent *ACTIVE* C# forum for help...



So, heres my scenario:

ListboxQueue 1: 80 Items. (Queue)

ListboxWork 1(through 6): 0 Items (Work 2 be done)



ListBoxWork is actually sitting inside of a List(of Listbox).



What is the best way to distribute each item from the queue into the work (with a max of 8 per LB)...

Now, I could do a lot of if statements, but I would like it to use the List(of listbox) to do the spread...

Now, I have 80 items, 6 "workers"...with a max of 8 per worker, it'd come out to 48...which means i'd like to leave the last 32 items in the queue.



(I know I stated this is for C#, but I also know how to convert VB as well)


Thanks for the solution.


I am not necessarily looking for a code snippet, but more so a direction.

[dunfiddlin]

For i = 0 To 41 Step 6:For j = 0 to 5: From LBQ i+J to Listbox i

[.paul.]

try this:

Public Class Form1

    Dim listBoxes() As ListBox

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        listBoxes = New ListBox() {ListboxWork1, ListboxWork2, ListboxWork3, ListboxWork4, ListboxWork5, ListboxWork6}
        ListboxQueue.Items.AddRange(Enumerable.Range(1, 80).Select(Function(x) x.ToString).ToArray)
    End Sub

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim items() As String = ListboxQueue.Items.Cast(Of String).ToArray
        For x As Integer = 0 To 5
            listBoxes(x).Items.AddRange(items.Skip(x * 8).Take(8).ToArray)
            For x2 As Integer = 0 To 7
                ListboxQueue.Items.RemoveAt(0)
            Next
        Next
    End Sub

End Class