loading a textbox with several strings of text (multi-lines of text)

[phillipsbrian]

I need to display several lines of text in a VB textbox (VB 2005 Xpress). my aproach to test the possibilty has been as the following code:

dim I as Integer
for I = 1 to 10
Textbox1.text = "hgjhgjhgjhgjhg" + chr(13)
next

this produces only one line at the top of the box which is overwriten 10 times.

Please advise on what I am doing wrong, thank you

[Killer42]

Ok, every time you set the value of a property (eg the .Text property) you are replacing the old value. So you need to think carefully about exactly what you want to put in there each time around the loop.

Seems to me, what you want to set it to is the old value of the property, with the new value stuck on the end.

[phillipsbrian]

many thanks, I had not realised that the texbox cleared each time it was addressed, seems strange to me that should be so!
Thats one hurdle out the way.
greetings

my routine for testing is now as here:
Dim I As Integer
Dim mytext(20), last(20) As String
For I = 1 To 20
last(I) = Str(I) & "------------- " & Rnd(5) & Chr(13) & Chr(10)
mytext(I) = last(I)
TextBox9.Text = TextBox9.Text & mytext(I)

[Killer42]

many thanks, I had not realised that the texbox cleared each time it was addressed, seems strange to me that should be so!

You need to stop looking at it that way. It's a property, which is just like a variable connected to a control. When you place a value in a variable (or property) it replaces the prior value. That's all there is to it.

You need to learn to do a lot of that sort of generalisation in programming, and not treat each thing as a special case.

As for strange, well... that's practically the definition of programming. :)

[phillipsbrian]

many thanks, I will get there in the end. VB is relatively new to me, I used to do a lot of assembler programming but that is not so helpful in relation to VB. or perhaps my age is telling. thanks again. Brian