ListBox selection

[BoudewijnEctor]

Hi, I've got a listBox in a program, and an array of instances of an own class. This class has a property called ID, and name. Both can be accessed by using get_ID(), and get_name(). The user must be able to select an instance in the listbox by selcting its name and clicking a button. This works, I use getCurSel, as long as I know what position each instance has in the list. But other people will need to add their own instances, and they will have to change all the ID's etc. Is there a way to determine the text selected in a list box, instead of the position of the selection, so I will know exactly which instance is selected? Thanks,

[HalfWayMan]

The way that I use is when I add a string to the list box, I also setup a pointer to the custom data, in your case, your own class. I usually do this with: m_ListBox.SetItemDataPtr (m_ListBox.AddString (item->name), (void *)item); You can then get the item data for the current selection like so: my_class *item = (my_class *)m_ListBox.GetItemDataPtr (m_ListBox.GetCurSel ()); Does this help? www.originalsinsoftware.com

[Jagadeesh VN]

You can use the CListBox::GetText method. GetText accepts the position and LPSTR as input, and you can pass the selected item position, and get the corresponding text. pListBox->GetText( position, str.GetBuffer(MAX_LENGTH) ); "A robust program is resistant to errors -- it either works correctly, or it does not work at all; whereas a fault tolerant program must actually recover from errors."