Sorting Eggs with VB... HELP PLEASE

[jryanfallon]

I am trying to write a program to sort eggs, extra eggs are discarded
the program must have a pop up box for enter the eggs

box type
extra large - 12 dozen (144 eggs)
large - 6 dozen (72 eggs)
medium - 3 dozen (36 eggs)
small - 1 dozen (12 eggs)

example output picture box

given total number of eggs: 952

XL boxes required: 6
L boxes requried: 1
M boxes requried: 0
S boxes requried: 1
Left over discarded Eggs: 4

wouldnt mind having a pop up box saying "would u like to discard extra eggs?"

i think u need to write loops which enter the count for u and work from the 1st inported value

[Killer42]

What version of VB are you working with? And how far along are you in building this?

The overall techynique is probably to start with your total number of eggs and do a loop through each of the box types, starting from the largest. Each time around the loop, some variation on Int(TotalEggsLeft / BoxCapacity) will give you the number of boxes required. Then you subtract the number of eggs catered for, and loop around again.

[jryanfallon]

i am working with the newest vb i think... im not to sure how to use a loop is the problem.. i understand kinda... but when i have to take it from the popup box i get lost

[debasisdas]

i am working with the newest vb i think...

You don't know which version of VB you are working on ?

Do you know what are you doing ?

[jryanfallon]

im using vb 6.0

i do know what i am doing... i kinda understand loops ... i dont know how to use the entered value in popup box into the loop

[Killer42]

Just a quick note. VB6 (which I use and like) is over 10 years old, and at least 3 versions behind. So "latest" is probably not entirely accurate.

Could you show us what you've written so far?