HLP: Retrieving ListView String Information

5 Apr 2005 3:20 AM

Mr. B

I think I'm missing something here... but is there someway to get the String
information from a ListView without the garbage that I get?

For example, I've a ListView with a couple of columns... and if I want to get
the String in a Column and I use something like LItem.SubItems(2).ToString.
This give me something like "ListViewSubItem: {60-004}" ---> where '60-004' is
the string I'm looking for. So I have to 'remove the before and after junk as
follows:

    Dim TmpStrng, TmpStrng1 As String
    Dim LItem As ListViewItem
    Dim LItems As ListView.SelectedListViewItemCollection
    LItems = lvModDwgs.SelectedItems
    ' INFO - LItem.SubItems(2).ToString = "ListViewSubItem: {60-004}"
    '        Remove ListViewSubItem Gargage!

    For Each LItem In LItems
      ' Global Selection Item
      gblSelItem = LItem.Text
      lblDwgRename.Text = gblSelItem

      ' Layout Name
      ' Remove the Before and After junk information
      TmpStrng = LItem.SubItems(1).ToString
      TmpStrng = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Right(TmpStrng, Len(TmpStrng) - 18)
      TmpStrng = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left(TmpStrng, Len(TmpStrng) - 1)
      txbDwgRename.Text = TmpStrng

    Next ' LItem

So there be an easier way? True? If so... please what?

Thanks in advance.

Bruce F

5 Apr 2005 3:23 AM

Veign

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"Mr. B" <U***@NoWhere.com> wrote in message
news:sg0451plbfmn3f3d707fseu470tfounocj@4ax.com...
> I think I'm missing something here... but is there someway to get the
String
> information from a ListView without the garbage that I get?
>
> For example, I've a ListView with a couple of columns... and if I want to
get
> the String in a Column and I use something like

LItem.SubItems(2).ToString.

> This give me something like "ListViewSubItem: {60-004}" ---> where

'60-004' is
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> the string I'm looking for. So I have to 'remove the before and after
junk as
> follows:
>
>     Dim TmpStrng, TmpStrng1 As String
>     Dim LItem As ListViewItem
>     Dim LItems As ListView.SelectedListViewItemCollection
>     LItems = lvModDwgs.SelectedItems
>     ' INFO - LItem.SubItems(2).ToString = "ListViewSubItem: {60-004}"
>     '        Remove ListViewSubItem Gargage!
>
>     For Each LItem In LItems
>       ' Global Selection Item
>       gblSelItem = LItem.Text
>       lblDwgRename.Text = gblSelItem
>
>       ' Layout Name
>       ' Remove the Before and After junk information
>       TmpStrng = LItem.SubItems(1).ToString
>       TmpStrng = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Right(TmpStrng, Len(TmpStrng) - 18)
>       TmpStrng = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left(TmpStrng, Len(TmpStrng) - 1)
>       txbDwgRename.Text = TmpStrng
>
>     Next ' LItem
>
>
> So there be an easier way? True? If so... please what?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bruce F

5 Apr 2005 3:36 AM

Crouchie1998

For your information this is a VB.NET newsgroup (
microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb
), but the user has posted the message also in a Database & ADO group too

I really aren't fully understanding what you want to do. Are you just
wanting to select subitem(2)'s text? (SelectectedText)

Crouchie1998
BA (HONS) MCP MCSE

5 Apr 2005 5:36 AM

Mr. B

With Deft Fingers, "Crouchie1998" <crouchie1***@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>I really aren't fully understanding what you want to do. Are you just
>wanting to select subitem(2)'s text? (SelectectedText)

What I want to 'get' is the TEXT only... without the excess junk stiff as:

The info I get:                 ListViewSubItem: {60-004}
I remove the Left stuff:    ListViewSubItem: {
I remove the Right stuff:    }
I end up with this:            60-004

But there must be an easier way other than removing the left/right stuff...

No biggy... just thoutht that there would be an easier way.

Regards,

Bruce F

5 Apr 2005 3:54 AM

Stephany Young

Watch your cross-posting. It can sometimes lead to foot-in-mouth disease. :)

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"Veign" <NOSPAMinveign@veign.com> wrote in message
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> Almost everybody in this newsgroup is using VB6 or lower. While you may
> get
> a stray answer to VB.NET questions here, you should ask them in newsgroups
> devoted exclusively to .NET programming. Look for newsgroups with either
> the
> word "dotnet" or "vsnet" in their name.
>
> For the microsoft news server, try these newsgroups...
>
> microsoft.public.dotnet.general
> microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb
> microsoft.public.vsnet.general
>
>
> --
> Chris Hanscom - Microsoft MVP (VB)
> Veign's Resource Center
> http://www.veign.com/vrc_main.asp
> --
> Read. Decide. Sign the petition to Microsoft.
> http://classicvb.org/petition/
>
>
> "Mr. B" <U***@NoWhere.com> wrote in message
> news:sg0451plbfmn3f3d707fseu470tfounocj@4ax.com...
>> I think I'm missing something here... but is there someway to get the
> String
>> information from a ListView without the garbage that I get?
>>
>> For example, I've a ListView with a couple of columns... and if I want to
> get
>> the String in a Column and I use something like
> LItem.SubItems(2).ToString.
>> This give me something like "ListViewSubItem: {60-004}" ---> where
> '60-004' is
>> the string I'm looking for. So I have to 'remove the before and after
> junk as
>> follows:
>>
>>     Dim TmpStrng, TmpStrng1 As String
>>     Dim LItem As ListViewItem
>>     Dim LItems As ListView.SelectedListViewItemCollection
>>     LItems = lvModDwgs.SelectedItems
>>     ' INFO - LItem.SubItems(2).ToString = "ListViewSubItem: {60-004}"
>>     '        Remove ListViewSubItem Gargage!
>>
>>     For Each LItem In LItems
>>       ' Global Selection Item
>>       gblSelItem = LItem.Text
>>       lblDwgRename.Text = gblSelItem
>>
>>       ' Layout Name
>>       ' Remove the Before and After junk information
>>       TmpStrng = LItem.SubItems(1).ToString
>>       TmpStrng = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Right(TmpStrng, Len(TmpStrng) -
>> 18)
>>       TmpStrng = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left(TmpStrng, Len(TmpStrng) - 1)
>>       txbDwgRename.Text = TmpStrng
>>
>>     Next ' LItem
>>
>>
>> So there be an easier way? True? If so... please what?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Bruce F
>
>

5 Apr 2005 5:33 AM

Mr. B

With Deft Fingers, "Stephany Young" <noone@localhost> wrote:

>Watch your cross-posting. It can sometimes lead to foot-in-mouth disease. :)

Well in all the 'years' I've done so (in the three that I do cross post)...
I've NEVER had someone say that it's mostly for VB6 only (of which I use to
code in)... so....

Bruce F

5 Apr 2005 5:37 AM

Stephany Young

If you follow the flow of the thread that was not aimed at you, it was aimed
at the one who had a go at you.

If he had put brain into gear before letting the fingers fly then he
probably wouldn't have had a go at you at all.

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"Mr. B" <U***@NoWhere.com> wrote in message
news:7n8451dve7naeueu5o0oes3ak1i63ej0qa@4ax.com...
> With Deft Fingers, "Stephany Young" <noone@localhost> wrote:
>
>>Watch your cross-posting. It can sometimes lead to foot-in-mouth disease.
>>:)
>
> Well in all the 'years' I've done so (in the three that I do cross
> post)...
> I've NEVER had someone say that it's mostly for VB6 only (of which I use
> to
> code in)... so....
>
> Bruce F

5 Apr 2005 4:04 AM

Stephany Young

The Text property of the subitem is what you want. The use to the ToString
method is inappropriate in this case.

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"Mr. B" <U***@NoWhere.com> wrote in message
news:sg0451plbfmn3f3d707fseu470tfounocj@4ax.com...
>I think I'm missing something here... but is there someway to get the
>String
> information from a ListView without the garbage that I get?
>
> For example, I've a ListView with a couple of columns... and if I want to
> get
> the String in a Column and I use something like
> LItem.SubItems(2).ToString.
> This give me something like "ListViewSubItem: {60-004}" ---> where
> '60-004' is
> the string I'm looking for. So I have to 'remove the before and after
> junk as
> follows:
>
>    Dim TmpStrng, TmpStrng1 As String
>    Dim LItem As ListViewItem
>    Dim LItems As ListView.SelectedListViewItemCollection
>    LItems = lvModDwgs.SelectedItems
>    ' INFO - LItem.SubItems(2).ToString = "ListViewSubItem: {60-004}"
>    '        Remove ListViewSubItem Gargage!
>
>    For Each LItem In LItems
>      ' Global Selection Item
>      gblSelItem = LItem.Text
>      lblDwgRename.Text = gblSelItem
>
>      ' Layout Name
>      ' Remove the Before and After junk information
>      TmpStrng = LItem.SubItems(1).ToString
>      TmpStrng = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Right(TmpStrng, Len(TmpStrng) - 18)
>      TmpStrng = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left(TmpStrng, Len(TmpStrng) - 1)
>      txbDwgRename.Text = TmpStrng
>
>    Next ' LItem
>
>
> So there be an easier way? True? If so... please what?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bruce F

5 Apr 2005 4:21 AM

Crouchie1998

See the attached project (zipped)

or:

Column 1:
MessageBox.Show(ListView1.SelectedItems(0).Text)

Column 2:
MessageBox.Show(ListView1.SelectedItem.(0).SubItems(1).Text)

Column 3
MessageBox.Show(ListView1.SelectedItems(0).SubItems(2).Text & " sec(s))

I hope this helps

Crouchie1998
BA (HONS) MCP MCSE

[attached file: ListView Example.zip]

5 Apr 2005 6:48 AM

Cor Ligthert

Bruce,

What I really not see from your sample is what is the starting information
in the column of your listview in that column. (Just one row as example) in
text when the listview is in detailview.

Cor