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Loominarteyy
Loominarteyy

Reputation: 31

Create list of controls

I seem to not getting it, I'm trying to create some kind of list in Visual Basic where each item isn't just a string but a bundle of labels, a button and maybe a picture. I've already written some programs in VB but I just don't get how I'm supposed to start this, sorry, maybe I'm just missing out some elements or something like that. Anyone got an idea?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5496

Answers (1)

Brian Hibbert
Brian Hibbert

Reputation: 250

This is highly simplified, and for illustration only.

I've created a class that is nothing more than 2 properties to hold pointers to a related set of 1 button and 1 textbox.

Public Class MyControls
    Property theTextBox As TextBox
    Property theButton As Button
End Class

Then in my code that needs to store the controls together in a list:

    Dim controlList As New List(Of MyControls)
    Dim item1 As New MyControls
    item1.theButton = New Button
    item1.theTextBox = New TextBox
    controlList.Add(item1)

After than you can get access to the controls by selecting the items from the list and using the dot operator.

   controlList.Item(0).theTextBox.Text = "New text"

Adding these to a ListView depends on how you want them displayed. The hard part is deciding there to put them... This example just adds the textbox and displays the button below it. 

controlList.Item(0).theButton.Text = "press me"
ListView1.Controls.Add(controlList.Item(0).theTextBox)
controlList.Item(0).theButton.Top = controlList.Item(0).theTextBox.Height
ListView1.Controls.Add(controlList.Item(0).theButton)

Upvotes: 2

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