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Referencing List Box names with Variables
I have a form with 10 listboxes, lstDetails1...lstDetails10
I could write 10 procedures to
1. open a database
2. select records
3. loop through and fill the list boxes
I would like to write a function and pass parameters including the listbox name to be filled along with the sql statement to get the data.
The sql part is easy but I cannot figure how to refernce a listbox from a variable.
this is what I want to do
function filllistbox(listboxname, sqlstring)
loop
listboxname.additem "abcdef etc."
end loop
"listboxname" is a variable containing the name of the listbox.
Any ideas?
Thanks
I could write 10 procedures to
1. open a database
2. select records
3. loop through and fill the list boxes
I would like to write a function and pass parameters including the listbox name to be filled along with the sql statement to get the data.
The sql part is easy but I cannot figure how to refernce a listbox from a variable.
this is what I want to do
function filllistbox(listboxname, sqlstring)
loop
listboxname.additem "abcdef etc."
end loop
"listboxname" is a variable containing the name of the listbox.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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dim ListBoxName as control
In the procedure you are calling the function from.
Set ListBoxName = lstDetails(1)
Now call your procedure to fill the listbox passing ListBoxName and the Sql Statement