ListView listitem key field

[Mark Sreeves]

Has anyone ever tried using number as a listitem key?

You can't do it!

Even if the number is a string it complains.

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim itmx As ListItem
Dim strKey  As String
strKey = CStr(22222)

Set itmx = ListView1.ListItems.Add(, strKey, "Item 1")
End Sub

Is there a way around this?

[Iain17]

Weird, it seems to work with very large numbers. i tried "10000000000" and it worked.

I thinhk you sould add a special text character at the beginning strkey.
I always use "key" : strkey = "key" & cstr(22222).

[Mark Sreeves]

Well that's one way npminh but it's messy and I shouldn't have to because cstr(22222)is a string and the key need to be a string.

[Bill Gates]

Sorry lads, looks like I messed-up again!

Still, who cares!

it is because you can access the items by Index or by Key.
So it would never know if you where accessing a key or an index.

[Iain17]

Thats just plain dumb.

If you pass it a string, then it should look for the key.

The index is a number, so if you pass it a number, it should look for the index.

Bloody VB.

Well thats the way variants work.
Thats why variants suck, but i guess its is the only way to accept strings/numbers.

[dcarlson]

The same thing happens with the treeview. To get around it I used npminh's method.

[Chris]

How about just add an extra alphabet infront of the supplied key?

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim itmx As ListItem
Dim strKey  As String
strKey = "k" & CStr(22222)

Set itmx = ListView1.ListItems.Add(, strKey, "Item 1")
End Sub

I always did that, instead of using integer or long as my key value.

Hope this will work for you.
Cheers!