Deleting multiple items in a listbox

[Seb]

Im trying to make a button delete more than one item at the same time when they r all highlighted in a list box. Heres what I have so far:

Private Sub DelButton_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles DelButton.Click
        If LeftListBox.SelectedItems.Count <> 0 Then
            LeftListBox.Items.Remove(LeftListBox.SelectedItem)
            LeftTextBox.Focus()
            EnableDisableButtons()
        End If
        If RightListBox.SelectedItems.Count <> 0 Then
            RightListBox.Items.Remove(RightListBox.SelectedItem)
            LeftTextBox.Focus()
            EnableDisableButtons2()
        End If
    End Sub

Cheers

 

[samsmithnz]

Ive used the list box quite a but now, and i believe that the listbox.items.selecteditems() collection contains all the selected items, and may be what youre looking for.

 

[Seb]

Ive tried that but it only deletes one at a time in either list box.

 

[Seb]

HELP NEEDED!!

Anyone else have any ideas?

 

[samsmithnz]

Yeh but cant you loop through the selecteditems collection and delete all items in that collection?

 

[Seb]

How do I loop through the selecteditems collection?

 

[Bucky]

Dim item As Object

For Each item In LeftListBox.SelectedItems
  LeftListBox.Items.Remove(item)
Next

 

[TheNaughty]

Dim item As Object

For Each item In LeftListBox.SelectedItems
  LeftListBox.Items.Remove(item)
Next

Doent works in C# because the SelectedItems collection changes while looping through wich causes an error, anybody knows how to do it with a short code??

(The only working way i know right know is: )

object[] aItems = new object[listBox1.SelectedItems.Count];
listBox1.SelectedItems.CopyTo(aItems, 0);

foreach(object oDelItem in aItems)
{
	listBox1.Items.Remove(oDelItem);
}

 

[samsmithnz]

Cant you try and delete the last (or first) item of the collection until youve looped through it all?
eg (Psuedocode)

while selecteditems is not nothing
    selecteditems.remove(0)
loop

 

[Jay1b]

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Seb
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Ive tried that but it only deletes one at a time in either list box.

12-03-2003 06:14 PM

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Seb
Newcomer

Registered: Nov 2003
Location:
Posts: 7
HELP NEEDED!!
Anyone else have any ideas?

12-05-2003 06:33 PM


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19 minutes, isnt exactly a long time to leave it before you bump a thread. Leave a day or two in future, give people a chance to read your demands.

Everyone here is very helpful, and will help you if they can - i have been helped to no-end myself. Just dont take the piss out of them.

 

[TheNaughty]

while selecteditems is not nothing
    selecteditems.remove(0)
loop

wont work because selecteditems doesnt contains a remove function.. And if it has it would be more logic that it would only deselect the items.

 

[sho]

for(int i = this.fileList.SelectedItems.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
 this.fileList.Items.Remove(this.fileList.SelectedItems[0]);

 

[DiverDan]

Not to jump into the middle of this, but have you considered using a ListView as it does support removing multiple items?

 

[TheNaughty]

for(int i = listBox1.SelectedItems.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)listBox1.Items.Remove(listBox1.SelectedItems[0]);

Thanks sho, that was the code i was lookin for.. After all it is so simple i should have thought it myself...