Hi,

I need some help in the following:
is it possible to populate a ListBox with Items that are UserControl elements? I need to code the following: I have a List of elements which all have some text (which needs to be editable by users), some links (editable), some priority (also needs to be changable). Therefore I thought the best way is to have a ListBox which's elements are User Controls with a TextBox (for the text), a NumericUpDown (to select the priority), and a ComboBox (to be able to edit the links).
Could somebody tell me how to do this? I could just find that it is possible to customly draw the items but to draw these controls from scratch is quite a big deal...
Thanks for your help!
Viktor

When the user clicks on the listbox, what do you expect to show them? You might consider constructing a class with the items you want to save, but define them as pointers to the various control objects. Yes, C# supports pointers, but you have to define them as "unsafe" because they are not part of the supported MSIL component. You could then show a string element stored as part of the class in the listbox and, after they make their selection, use the pointers held in the class in whatever way you deem necessary. I don't really like this approach since it is not portable, nor do I like using controls (IU elements) as data objects (i.e., buffers). Still, it might suit your purposes.

Dr. Purdum


Jack Purdum, Ph.D.
Author: Beginning C# 3.0: Introduction to Object Oriented Programming (and 14 other programming texts)

Thank You very much for Your reply I think this will be suitable for me, could You please tell me some link/book where I could read some more about this topic?
Thanks a lot!
Viktor

You might try googling "C# pointers", which is what I did and I found the following that discusses more-or-less what I said earlier:

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadF...sInCSharp.aspx

I like the c-sharpcorner.com site as it often has some clever code examples to read. Even though I'm two years younger than dirt, I'm never too old to learn something new!

Good luck!

Dr. Purdum


Jack Purdum, Ph.D.
Author: Beginning C# 3.0: Introduction to Object Oriented Programming (and 14 other programming texts)