I'd Like to know how to make a free text search function, If you don't Know what i mean by "Free Text Search" then here is an example:
Lets say i want to search for the string "ong" in a Combobox(In the list ofc)
And we have the following Listitems:
Tim Carlson
Bob Hanks
Julie Wong
Jennifer Sanfre
Jimmy Wong
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Then Both Julie and Jimmy Should apper in the combobox list.
I'd Like to know how to make a free text search function, If you don't Know what i mean by "Free Text Search" then here is an example:Lets say i want to search for the string "ong" in a Combobox(In the list ofc)And we have the following Listitems:
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Tim Carlson
Bob Hanks
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1st Query - I have a combobox which has around 10 entries. They are the names of students.
Vaibhav Agarwal
Karan Kabra
Vinay Chhawchharia
Puneet Kabra
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I'm making a personal movie launcher and I would like to know if it is possible for VB to search my video folder and add the title of all the films to my combobox. (so that I don't have to edit a xml file everytime)
View 7 Replies1. I have a multiline texbox and want to know if there is a way to search for a text in the textbox... The user should be able to input a search string and click a button to search all the entries of the string in it, just like ctrl+f
2. Is there anyway to make the textbox 'read only'? The textbox is populated by application itself, with some logs.. The only reason I chose textbox was because, I can't select an item and copy it from label..
Also, can a textbox include formatting, such as making some text bold, underlined etc?..
How do I read 4 textfiles and then put he names of the files in to a combobox so when one of them is chosen it write the text into a listbox.
View 4 RepliesI have been searching for an easier way to validate the text property of my combobox.
Below is a background of what I am try to accomplish:
I have a from that contains many controls, mainly comboboxes that are bound to datatables. I have these set up in such a fashion as to when the user begins to type, the values begin to show and auto populate the combobox. This makes the selection process easier to select an actual value in the list. But, as we all know, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. Users still have the ability to type something that is not in the list. I do not want to allow them to leave the combobox until the have selected or typed a valid value from the list because I am building a SQL query to retrieve data for a later form. I don't want to lose the above mentioned functionality of being able to type it in. I currently have it working as follows, but there must be a more elegant way to do this.
I first populate my combo box like so:
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The part I don't like the most is that I feel like I should be able to use the list already loaded in the combobox data, but I can't figure out how to do it. So I end up having to reload it, this seem like a waste of time.
following issue I'm having:
I have 2 tables: locations and depot:
Locations:
site_refnbr (primary key)
site_name
depot_refnbr(foreign key)
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I need to populate cboDepot's text property with the depot_name, and not the depot_refnbr that corresponds with the Location selected on frm1 from cboLocations.Frm1 has a button, and I'm not sure if I'd have to code this in the button click event, the cboLocation_Selected IndexChanged event, or in frm2's load event.
I have three controls on my form; Textbox1, cboCity, lstCity When something (lets say "a") is entered in the TextBox1; I want to get each and every item in combobox cboCity that starts with "a" and add them to listbox lstCity.
View 5 RepliesI'm trying to concatenate nonnull multiple columns from a database into the text property of a combobox. Right now, I'm receiving an "IndexOutOfRangeException was unhandled name, address1, address2". The line in red is where the error is occurring. Here is my code for this section:[code].....
View 1 Replieshave build some code which goes through the datasource finding records on what a user types, basically if the user types 'P' in the combobox it finds all records from FieldName with 'P' and if you type 'Portugal' it finds all records from the FieldName with 'Portugal, it all narrows down the search list say if there are to entries which match 'Portugal' the combox would only have to items in. The problem i am have is that when i bound the datasource back to the combobox every letter you type stays at Postion 0 of the combobox and doesn't move to the end of the letter as normally the combo works, does any one now how to get arround this problem.
At the moment i call my combobox search code from the keypress event of the combobox.This code works fine with recordsets in msaccess combobox but i cannot get it to work with the datasource of the combobox in vb.net Heres the code from the combobox keypress event:
Private Sub ComboBox1_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles ComboSearch.KeyPress
Dim keyascii As Integer = AscW(e.KeyChar)
PhoneBookComboSearch(keyascii)
End Sub
Below is the code at the end of my keypress event send the datasource back to the combobox.
Dim adapter As New SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter(strSQL, conn)
Dim dt As New DataTable("MyTable")
Dim ds As New DataSet
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i wan to display the text from combobox into the textbox and clear the combobox text when click on the button.But when i select another text from the combobox and click the button, the textbox display and overwrite the previous text.How can i do so that when click, textbox display text from combobox and clear combobox text. Then click again, display the new text at 2nd line of the textbox without deleting the previous text?
View 5 RepliesI want to have a text box which allows user to input free text or to pick from list derived from previous entries to this field. I can do it where random number generates to become a field on the combo box for editing but not sure how to use the free text to add to drop down linked to the same field.
View 5 Repliesi want to ask that how i can open a search page in my vb.net webbrowser with a separate textbox in a tool bar separate from the url text box
View 2 Repliesi have a combobox all names are displayed i want to search by first letter..if i type n in combobox then names starting from n should be displayed in that combobox...how can i do that?i have my code to display all names from database.
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I am trying to build a NOTEPAD/WORDPAD like application with vb.net on visual studio 2008.
I need an option to define and choose (MsWord, or CSS like) paragraphs styles, such as: "heading1", "green quotes", etc.
I am creatting an windows application software in which many controls like Buttons, textBox, combobox are remain same in 12 different form. In this 12 diff form the activity of those controls will remain same.The scenareo id
1. I have 12 forms.
2. Each form containing 3 labels (Country, State, City). These labels indicates 3 combobox from which we can select location.
3. Now I need to use these 3 controls in all 12 forms with same activity.
4. When I change forms to another, these buttons shud remain same.
im a newbie, just want to learn vb.net (2010) wel im working on a vb2010 and msaccess2003
i wanted to search ms access data using a combobox and a textbox. i had several columns on ms access like emp_id , last name, first name, position, etc. every item name is already set on the combobox so my code is here for the search button
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I have a problem with search query im using combobox for searching in my code there's is no error.but nothings happen when i search this is my code:
Public Sub searchdata()
Try
SQLCONNECTIONS.connect()
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I am creating a movie player which lists movie files from various folders/subfolders in a combobox (tsFileList). I'd like to be able to enter the movie name into a textbox (txtSearch), find that text in the combobox (using instr), then automatically select the found item.I'd like to use instr as some of the items in the combobox contains full file paths.
View 3 RepliesI am using .net 2008. I have placed a ComboBox on the form and I do not have an additem.
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I have a tab control application, each tab loads a particular user control and each of those user controls will then add other user controls that are used amongst other the user controls. For example, I have an "ucQuotes" page and an "ucInventory" page, when the specific tab is selected, the "uc****" user control is loaded on that page, and in the case of "ucQuotes" and "ucInventory" they both use a control called "ucPartNumber"; a user control consisting of a combobox, textbox, and button. I have no issues reusing the shared user controls, in this case. My problem arises with my "ucQuickPrice" control, as it is always present at the bottom of the tab control form (separate from the tabcontrol, but on the same form), and it too uses ucPartnumber.
Here's my issue, as I type into the ucPartnumber combobox, the text I type does not appear in the combobox, it appears in the textbox of the ucPartnumber control that is being used on the tabcontrol page. There are no shared instances of ucPartNumber, nor do I have this issue between typing on one tab page and the text showing on the user control of another tab page.I tried just creating the ucPartNumber controls on the ucQuickPrice control, not adding a new instance of ucPartnumber on the .Load event, and the issue persists.
The combobox(s) in question are bound programmatically with about 40,000 items, ".datasource = dataset.tablename" not to a bindingsource. Autocomplete is set to none, I added code to utilize tool tips and the basic combobox filtering functionality. Is this a bug, or is there something I'm neglecting? I'm about 95% complete with this application, and this just happened today. I made the decision, to just reuse the ucPartNumber control on the ucQuickPrice control (originallly it's size and orientation would not fit, but I added some coding to detect what parent is adding ucPartNumber and to change its appearance accordingly). Before, I made this change, I did not have this problem. And, in trying to go back to how I had things set up before the change, the problem will not go away. if the whole control within a control verbage I used is a bit confusing, let me know and I'll try to better explain what is happening. At this point, I'm going to close and reopen vbexpress, as when I started this ordeal, vb started acting weird and wanted me to save all my work, it usually does this before locking up.
Im trying to make a search bar that has a Go button now heres where it gets diffcuilt How do i make this search bar take the text in the the text bar and add it into a pre defined weblink and replace a bit of text with that word in the search bar so the user types into the text bar for example they type in NAME HERE so when you click go it taxt for instance [URL] now how could i make it so when you hit the GO button that it takes the text in the textbox and and replaced REPLACE TEXT in the pre defined address and put NAME HERE into the address and then load it up with a web browser and also how would i make it open up with the web browser that the person is useing (since lods of people use diffrent web browsers)
View 3 RepliesI had added the items
1
2
3 to the combobox.
Then I gave the "Select" to the text of the combobox.
How can I able to reset combobox to select the text("Select").
I had tried by giving -1 to the SelectedIndex. But it gives only Empty.
This is for VB.NET Windows Application
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When I will click the suggested text shown in the combobox it will disappear.My Combobox btw is connected in a database.If I type Kev then kevin and kevsky will show at its suggestion then when I will click any of it ,the combobox text will be empty or will clear what I typed ("Kev") and will not show what I clicked.[code]
View 7 RepliesI had added the items 1 2 3 to the combobox.
Then I gave the "Select" to the text of the combobox.
How can I able to reset combobox to select the text("Select").
I had tried by giving -1 to the SelectedIndex. But it gives only Empty.
This is for VB.NET Windows Application
I am Looking for a combobox that does a full search and O mean by that the following :
It starts searching data upon inserting or adding new character to the textbox of the combobox and vice-versa, which means that if I moved back by deleting a character then it starts searching again selecting the first data resembles the textbox. In another way I want a combobox class does exactly the same as combobox in Encylopedia.
the combobox with AutocompleteMode,AutoCompleteSource allow the user to search in the Combobox depend on the begin of items(string) how i can develop the combobox to allow to me search inside items example i have combobox contain this items:
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Dim cn As New OleDbConnection
Dim sql As String
Dim da As OleDbDataAdapter
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I have a combobox..... When a user clicks on the list inside the combobox my webbrowser opens to the selected items website.how to make the combobox go back to the original text of the combobox?
Example: Combobox list
---- Select Item ----
Royals
Mets
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When the user see's the screen the ---- Select Item ---- is visible. When a user clicks a teams name it opens the teams website and the name stays in the box. I want it to go back to ---- Select Item ---- immediately after they click a list item.