TextBox add items

[Talk2Tom11]

I know that with a listbox you can have something added to it, and then add something else without clearing the stuff before it. But I was wondering there was a way to add Items, to a textbox as well? of so please post

[Denaes]

Nope.

 

You can make one yourself though by extending the base textbox and making your new control for it.

 

Wether you want to make a new one entirely or just add it to your project, you'll need a collection.

 

In the collection you can add an item or an item and a string (like a name for it)

 

You can get the information from your collection via its index (automatically indexed) like a listbox, or if you gave it a string "Key", you can get it back with that.

 

Note, you can also use a combobox. There are three 'dropdown' methods, two allow you to put in text. The first option is flat out just a textbox with a scrollable (by pushing up/down I believe) combo list, it has no actual dropdown.

[ballisticnylon]

you wouldn't really be adding items, just concatenating additional text.

 

Textbox1.Text = "Thing1"

Textbox1.Text &= " Thing2"

 

Is that all you meant?

[dynamic_sysop]

you can use AppendText , eg:

TextBox1.AppendText(" item to add to the textbox")

[Talk2Tom11]

I am using this lst code you send:

 

TextBox1.AppendText(" item to add to the textbox")

 

it works... but I have one more question... if I want to add two items to the textbox at once... on seperate lines... how would I do that?

[dynamic_sysop]

TextBox1.AppendText(" item to add to the textbox" & Environment.NewLine & "next item to add")

[Denaes]

I am using this lst code you send:

 

TextBox1.AppendText(" item to add to the textbox")

 

it works... but I have one more question... if I want to add two items to the textbox at once... on seperate lines... how would I do that?

 

vbCRLF is Visual Basic's "Carrage Return & Line Feed"

 

"This is line 1" & vbCRLF & "This is line 2"

 

would have two lines. Just make sure your multi-line property is set to True.

 

Sorry if I mistook your inentions in the first post :p

[Denaes]

TextBox1.AppendText(" item to add to the textbox" & Environment.NewLine & "next item to add")

 

Which is better to use, vbCRLF or Environment.NewLine?

 

All the books I have use vbCRLF. I guess Environment.NewLine is the .Net managed way to do it?

[PlausiblyDamp]

I'd go with Environment.NewLine myself - works in all .Net languages.