Basically what i want to do is when a command button is clicked and it has run the code at then end i want a label to display one string out of many at random. How would i declare the various strings and then get it to display one at radnom
View 7 RepliesI am writing a who wants to be a millionaire console application in VB and need to write the 50/50 bit. I have tried searching for a solution but i couldn't find anything that would solve my problem. The questions and answers are stored in an array and i need to be able to call a random answer from the array.
View 3 RepliesI have a form with one richtextbox and one button. The idea is that:
Form Load: data read from text file into arrayButton Click: random number generated, then used to select the string whose index number matches the random number generated
My StreamReader is working correctly and I can create random numbers with no problem, but I'm stuck on how I can use this random number to extract the corresponding string. I keep get the error saying QuoteObject reference not set to an instance of an object.
My code is below:
Imports System.IO
Public Class Form1
Dim questions(69) As String
Dim i As Integer
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I am trying to create an application that will randomly select 14 "stations" (strings) from a list of 33. My thinking is that I have a for/next loop that randomly selects a number between 1,33 which is then inputted into an array (arrnumber) I then want those random numbers to then be used to call the Station name which is saved in the second array, and then for the selected stations to be populated into a listbox (potentially by storing those names selected in a new array?)
Various people have suggested either using a list (of t) instead of arrays, or a Dictionary(?) or perhaps even a database, though I am not all that confident with VB to be able to know where the best place to start with that is. So if anyone can offer any advice, pointers as to how I can link my 2 arrays (I am pretty sure I know how to make the array populate a listbox) I would be very much obliged.
Public Class Form1
Dim Stationid() As String = {"Cardiovascular Examination", "Respiratory Examination", "Abdominal Examination", "Abdominal Examination with Stoma", "Groin and External Genitalia Examination", "Cranial Nerves Examination", "Arm Examination", "Leg Examination", "Parkinson`s Examination", "Cerebellar Examination", "Speech Examination", "Hand Examination", "Elbow Examination", "Shoulder
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I have a class and I am trying to randomly select 3 items to display on a page (each item should be unique so that there is no repeating).I have some code that works(ish). The problem is that when I track the random numbers it takes about at least 50 attempts for the application to select a different random number than the one that was chosen the first time (defying the laws of probability).[code]
View 3 RepliesRight so I have made a graphic of a coin being flipped. Heads is shown on one graphic, tails on the other. I wanna set it up so that when I hit go it will randomly play one of the two graphics on one of my forms.How easy is it to add a .gif file to a form that can play when told to? What is the code im looking for to help with me with what I'm trying to do?
Another thing I plan to achieve is also a random number generator that will display a number on a ball that rolls on to the screen. So the displaying of a number will be timed to show up when the ball comes in focus. I have some code that I have used previously to generate a number, but I wanna get the generated number to show in time with the ball rolling up.What are some wait commands to use in vb .net? This is the code I am using to randomly generate a number.
vb
Dim r As New Random
TextBox1.Text = r.Next(0, 150)
How long it would take to generate all of the numbers between 1 and X randomly.
X=1,000,000 took 6 seconds, and for 10,000,000 took over a minute.
Does that sound reasonable?
Experiment
stopwatch start
count = 0
do while count < x
select a random number between 1 and X inclusive
have i selected this number before?
no-add 1 to count
yes -
loop
stopwatch stop
display elapsed time
I made the Do Loop UI un-friendly and ran this from the IDE using CTRL-F5. My PC is 1.8Ghz and has 2GB of memory. I am using VB 2008, .Net 3.5 SP1.
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Ok lets say i have 5 picturebox`s and 5 images, how can i randomly display the images in different pictureboxes each time i click a button ?
View 6 RepliesI have a DataGridView that has some columns with dates. It binds to an in-memory Datatable which gets loaded from an string array of data passed back from the backend Some of the rows returned have nulls for the date columns. Solution 1: If I define the Date column in the DataTable as "string" I can easily convert those nulls to empty strings and display it in the grid as empty strings (desired results). However, if the user clicks on the date column header to sort by date, it doesn't order the rows as you want. You get a purely string sort order. Not acceptable
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My program is supposed to display a randomly generated sentence on the screen (something like a screensaver) Then 'wait' for a random period between 1 and 5 minutes before cycling through to generate another sentence. How do I do that?
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I am working on a UDP Client/Server, and currently i have them sending back and forth strings, which i convert to bytes, and then open the bytes to read. I want to now send an Object instead of those strings, which includes multiple unsigned integers and strings.
View 39 RepliesI'm migrating from VB6 to VB.NET, in hence my questions below:
I have to write a function that returns array of strings.
How can I initiate it to empty array? I need it since I have to check if it's empty array after it returns from this function.
Is list of arrays better for this purpose? If I use a list - Is it empty when it firstly defined? How can I check it it's empty?
Basically, I'm not sure if I'm thinking along the correct lines when trying to break this down. The program is supposed to display the question "How much is _ x _?" with _ being a randomly generated number between 0-9 which I have in a label. The student inputs the answer and clicks the "Answer" button. If he gets it right, the label below outputs "Very Good!" and automatically puts a new question in the above label. If the student gets it incorrect, the output is "No, Please try again." and the student keeps trying until the question is answered correctly.
My method of thinking on this is that the random.object generator is input first so the question with the numbers are output in the first label. Then, under the Sub answer.button, enter the statements that will either check and refer to the above statements to get a new question or have the student try again until it's answered correctly. One of the other criteria for this is that I have to use a function for the calculation. Would the function statement, because it has to return a value, go before the answer.button code or after?
Say I have a List(Of Tag) with Tag being an object. One member of Tag, Tag.Description, is a string, and I want to make a comma-separated concatenation of the Description members.Is there an easier way to do this than to read the Description members into a List(Of String) and then use the Join function?
View 2 Repliesi'm running Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition (latest service pack ... 9.0.30729.1 SP) on XP Pro SP3 with .Net Framework version 3.5 SP1 I have a rather large project I've imported from Visual Studio 2003 (Standard).The project compiles and runs just fine ... my compiled program itself never crashes.
But while I actually have the code up in the IDE, and simply adding/deleting code the whole IDE will randomly crash (usually without warning) and I loose my changes since last save.If/when I do get some hint of why it crashed, I get a window about illegal whitespace or something.... but that's rare ... usually it just crashes without warning and the whole IDE completely shuts down instantly. just deleting/adding a character is enough to trigger it maybe once every 30 minutes.
This is on a computer that is otherwise very rock solid .... no other program ever crashes, etc.
How do I randomly select 1 string from some Text? For example: Main text:
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I have two lists of strings. One is a list of all students in a class and the other is a list of students in the class that completed an assignment. The two lists are part:whole. So we have two loops for copying elements and displaying them in a list box for only the students who did submit.
Dim f As Integer
f = 0
Dim h As Integer
h = 0
While (usersinclass.Count > f)
h = 0
While (usersidthatsubmittedassingments.Count > h)
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What I need is the remaining portion of the "usersinclass" list. (i.e. The students who did not submit). I tried an Else statement BUT with nested loops, every element is guaranteed not to match at least once, so I was getting elements that shouldn't be there. So, is there anyway to run the given lists against each other again to pull out the remaining students? (preferably with no repeats).
I am new in visual basic and I came up with a problem. I have text file with names in it and I want in a textbox everytime the user hits a button randomly choose a name from it.
View 1 RepliesThe next step is I need to build a randomizer to randomly select a row and read the columns of that row into varibles.I have a working randomizer that can randomly pick a number between min and max values but what I don't know if how to select a row / How to find out how many rows are available and how to read the values into varibles.Am I right in declaring an Integer Varible then using:
AvailableRows = DDT.Rows.Count
Then use my Random Function to pick a number between 0 and AvailableRows
how to get a program to read a text file randomly.
I want to be able read text into a variable without running into the end of file.
what I want is to select random items from a CheckedListBox and then print them to a sheet of paper. I also want to define how many random items are checked via a TextBox. Let's say I have 50 items in the CheckedListBox and I want to randomly select only 10 (more or less - user defined via the TextBox) of them and print them to a sheet of paper.
View 3 RepliesWhat's the fastest way to randomly generate numbers, either randomly or simulating random? I don't really need a true random number generator, it would be acceptable to simulate random. I tried other random simulation methods but none were faster than this. Here's the fastest way I have now:
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I am using Visual Basic 2008.I am trying to code a simple "show and hide" game where pictures are generated behind a buttonThese pictures need to be generated randomly from my resources. i have got as far as declaring the random number, but am having problems with using a image as avairible which can then be used in a picture box. i have tried "image" but i am having no luck!
View 4 RepliesI have a question about an array of string and random. I have an arry of string i.e Dim testArrayString() As String = {"Orange", "Apple", "London", "Sydney", "anything"} I want to show the each element of the above array randomly one by one in a message box....and also stores that randomly generated string from that array into an another variable... How would i do that... i have no clue
View 5 RepliesI am creating a "Who wants to be a millionaire" game. Lets say I have 100 questions in a listbox. How can i randomally select a question by clicking a button.
View 11 RepliesI have a list of strings. For each string in that list, I want to prepend another string. I wrote a method to do it, but I was wondering if there was something already in .NET I could use to do this. It seems like something that could be built in, but I was not able to find anything.
Here is the method I wrote:
Private Function PrependToAllInList(ByRef inputList As List(Of String), ByRef prependString As String) As List(Of String)
Dim returnList As List(Of String) = New List(Of String)
For Each inputString As String In inputList
returnList.Add(String.Format("{0}{1}", prependString, inputString))
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It works, but I would rather use built in functions whenever possible.
im wounder how to make a string error like that in vb so if the user write echi and not echo on a string it will get a error like a other variant of this if richtextbox1.text = ("ecoi") then msgbox("string error") but only on 1 string
View 3 RepliesI'm going to start a project so what I need to do is make something that is kinda like an email. I am working with the register part of it because just like an email you have to select who to send it to.
View 5 RepliesI read a text file and I want to make some changes and still save it as a text file.The change is to add color to some strings. How to do it?
1 2 3
3 4 5
4 5 7
Then
1 2 3
3 4 5
4 5 7
I have been summoned with the task of taking a tab delimited file and converting that file so it can be read by a third-party program. I am trying to think of the best way to do this, but I am having a hard time. Here is a view of the raw data that must be altered:
fkstoreidHeaderMarkB1RegNodateofbusinessNoRegEntriesTipsOverRingsVoids$Voids#NetSalesDP1_2GuestsDP3GuestsDP4GuestsDetailMarkfkdaypartidRecTypeGLB2Sales
1061HNULL101/01/2008NULLNULLNULL113.263512785.4714453137D2041005NULL2220.25
1061HNULL101/01/2008NULLNULLNULL113.263512785.4714453137D3041005NULL9170.19
1061HNULL101/01/2008NULLNULLNULL113.263512785.4714453137D4041005NULL670.75
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I am toiling with the best way of doing this. So far, I am not having much luck. I have used arrays quite successfully in Java, but I am not sure that this is the best way to go here. I would have to get how many lines there are and read each line. Make the changes, and then go on to the next line. I think scanning the document line by line using a loop is the best way. However, I am not sure.