link text boxes with listbox

[augie0216]

I have a form with a listbox and several textboxes. When I input data in the
textboxes and click the menu I have created the aircraftId should appear in
the listbox and link the data form the other textboxes with the aircraftId. So if I have three AircraftId's when I highlight one the data recorded when I first clicked the menu with that aircraftID populates the textboxes. I have gotten the aircraftId to appear in the listbox put can't get the textboxes to be populated. Here is the code I have:

Private Sub mmuRecordSaveArrival_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles mmuRecordSaveArrival.Click
Dim newItemText As String = txtAircraftID.Text
Me.lstAircraftID.Items.Add(newItemText)

This form is to test a class I created, and imported that class to the main form,so everthing is declared in the class.

[Comatose]

I would use a couple of arrays. I'd use 1 to store the ID, and however many others for each of the textbox's. So, if you have 3 text boxes, (not including the ID) you would have 4 arrays. 1 for each text box and 1 for the ID. Then, when they click the listbox, figure out which item was selected, and pull that up in the other arrays. Does, that make sense?

[augie0216]

Could you please show me an example.

[Comatose]

I'm not sure what changes you'll have to make for use in .NET, but the basic code would be something like this:

In The Form Level Declarations:

' /* Dimension Variables */
Dim counter
Dim newItemText() As String 
Dim pilotname() as string
Dim planetype() as string

Then in your form load:

' /* Set counter to 0 (start of array) */
counter = 0

And In Your Click Event (Or wherever):

' /* Set The Indices Of The Array's To The Value Of counter */
redim newItemText(counter)
redim pilotname(counter)
redim planetype(counter)

' /* Set The Array's Current Indice To The Values In The Textbox's */
newItemText(counter) = txtAircraftID.Text
pilotname(counter) = text1.text
planetype(counter) = text2.text

' /* Add The Item To The ListBox */
Me.lstAircraftID.Items.Add(newItemText(counter))

' /* Increment (add one to) The Counter Variable (So We Don't Over-Write Our Array) */
counter = counter + 1

Then, Whenever You click inside the listbox

' /* Set The Values Of The Textbox's To The Array's Indices Of The Index Selected IN The listbox */
txtaircraftID.Text = newItemText(lstAircraftID.SelectedIndex)
text1.text = pilotname(lstAircraftID.SelectedIndex) 
text2.text = planetype(lstAircraftID.SelectedIndex)

Or Something Like that. Let me know if that works for you.

[augie0216]

I'm very new at vb.net your explanation was kind of confusing to me. Do you think there is a way to do it without using an array?

[Comatose]

Not that I know of.... Unless You are storing these in a file.

[augie0216]

Thanks for your help I'll keep trying to figure it out.