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If statement for a combo box
In one of my subroutines I want to test for an option in a certia combobox. It doesn't matter which option the user has choosen, jus that they have chosen one at all. How do I word the If statement to test for this. Thanks in advance for any help! Amber :confused -- Amber_D_Law ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=3001 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=50955 |
If statement for a combo box
This check the length of the text in the combobox...
If CBool(Len(ComboBox1.Text)) Then MsgBox "Something" Else MsgBox "Nothing" End If Just change ComboBox1 to the name of your combobox... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Amber_D_Laws" wrote: In one of my subroutines I want to test for an option in a certian combobox. It doesn't matter which option the user has choosen, just that they have chosen one at all. How do I word the If statement to test for this. Thanks in advance for any help! Amber :confused: -- Amber_D_Laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30012 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=509553 |
If statement for a combo box
Thank You Jim, What you have seems to make sense, but I am unfamilar with "CBool" and "Len". What exactly do these functions(?) do? This question is of course out of pure curiosity. The meat of the matter is that presumably the code you provided will test for any selection in the combobox by testing for any lenght of text. Which if I am reading what you wrote correctly, means that I can just paste in the code I have written (the stuff I want it to do if the user has made a selection in the combo box) into where you have MsgBox "Something". Right? Regards, Amber:) Jim Thomlinson Wrote: This check the length of the text in the combobox... If CBool(Len(ComboBox1.Text)) Then MsgBox "Something" Else MsgBox "Nothing" End If Just change ComboBox1 to the name of your combobox... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Amber_D_Laws" wrote: In one of my subroutines I want to test for an option in a certian combobox. It doesn't matter which option the user has choosen, just that they have chosen one at all. How do I word the If statement to test for this. Thanks in advance for any help! Amber :confused: -- Amber_D_Laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30012 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=509553 -- Amber_D_Laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30012 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=509553 |
If statement for a combo box
CBool is like Cint or CStr. It converts what you have to a data type. In this
case a boolean. This works because in a computer 0 is false and everything else is true. So if the lenght is 0 CBool returns False. If the length is anything other than 0 then CBool returns True. You could also write the function... If Len(ComboBox1.Text)0 Then MsgBox "Something" Else MsgBox "Nothing" End If Either way is just fine. -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Amber_D_Laws" wrote: Thank You Jim, What you have seems to make sense, but I am unfamilar with "CBool" and "Len". What exactly do these functions(?) do? This question is of course out of pure curiosity. The meat of the matter is that presumably the code you provided will test for any selection in the combobox by testing for any lenght of text. Which if I am reading what you wrote correctly, means that I can just paste in the code I have written (the stuff I want it to do if the user has made a selection in the combo box) into where you have MsgBox "Something". Right? Regards, Amber:) Jim Thomlinson Wrote: This check the length of the text in the combobox... If CBool(Len(ComboBox1.Text)) Then MsgBox "Something" Else MsgBox "Nothing" End If Just change ComboBox1 to the name of your combobox... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Amber_D_Laws" wrote: In one of my subroutines I want to test for an option in a certian combobox. It doesn't matter which option the user has choosen, just that they have chosen one at all. How do I word the If statement to test for this. Thanks in advance for any help! Amber :confused: -- Amber_D_Laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30012 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=509553 -- Amber_D_Laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30012 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=509553 |
If statement for a combo box
For an ActiveX combobox from the Control toolbox toolbar, if you limit the
selection to items in the list you can use if Combobox1.ListIndex < -1 then ' as selection has been made If you don't want to allow type in entries (required an item in the list -they can still type that item in), you should set its properties so they are not allowed. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Amber_D_Laws" wrote in message news:Amber_D_Laws.22vppa_1139349003.9848@excelforu m-nospam.com... In one of my subroutines I want to test for an option in a certian combobox. It doesn't matter which option the user has choosen, just that they have chosen one at all. How do I word the If statement to test for this. Thanks in advance for any help! Amber :confused: -- Amber_D_Laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30012 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=509553 |
If statement for a combo box
Makes perfect sense Jim. I appreciate the explination. However, it leads me to a second question. What does "Len" mean in coding terms? Amber Jim Thomlinson Wrote: CBool is like Cint or CStr. It converts what you have to a data type. In this case a boolean. This works because in a computer 0 is false and everything else is true. So if the lenght is 0 CBool returns False. If the length is anything other than 0 then CBool returns True. You could also write the function... If Len(ComboBox1.Text)0 Then MsgBox "Something" Else MsgBox "Nothing" End If Either way is just fine. -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Amber_D_Laws" wrote: Thank You Jim, What you have seems to make sense, but I am unfamilar with "CBool" and "Len". What exactly do these functions(?) do? This question is of course out of pure curiosity. The meat of the matter is that presumably the code you provided will test for any selection in the combobox by testing for any lenght of text. Which if I am reading what you wrote correctly, means that I can just paste in the code I have written (the stuff I want it to do if the user has made a selection in the combo box) into where you have MsgBox "Something". Right? Regards, Amber:) Jim Thomlinson Wrote: This check the length of the text in the combobox... If CBool(Len(ComboBox1.Text)) Then MsgBox "Something" Else MsgBox "Nothing" End If Just change ComboBox1 to the name of your combobox... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Amber_D_Laws" wrote: In one of my subroutines I want to test for an option in a certian combobox. It doesn't matter which option the user has choosen, just that they have chosen one at all. How do I word the If statement to test for this. Thanks in advance for any help! Amber :confused: -- Amber_D_Laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30012 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=509553 -- Amber_D_Laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30012 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=509553 -- Amber_D_Laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30012 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=509553 |
If statement for a combo box
The Len function returns the length of a string.
-- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Amber_D_Laws" wrote: Makes perfect sense Jim. I appreciate the explination. However, it leads me to a second question. What does "Len" mean in coding terms? Amber Jim Thomlinson Wrote: CBool is like Cint or CStr. It converts what you have to a data type. In this case a boolean. This works because in a computer 0 is false and everything else is true. So if the lenght is 0 CBool returns False. If the length is anything other than 0 then CBool returns True. You could also write the function... If Len(ComboBox1.Text)0 Then MsgBox "Something" Else MsgBox "Nothing" End If Either way is just fine. -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Amber_D_Laws" wrote: Thank You Jim, What you have seems to make sense, but I am unfamilar with "CBool" and "Len". What exactly do these functions(?) do? This question is of course out of pure curiosity. The meat of the matter is that presumably the code you provided will test for any selection in the combobox by testing for any lenght of text. Which if I am reading what you wrote correctly, means that I can just paste in the code I have written (the stuff I want it to do if the user has made a selection in the combo box) into where you have MsgBox "Something". Right? Regards, Amber:) Jim Thomlinson Wrote: This check the length of the text in the combobox... If CBool(Len(ComboBox1.Text)) Then MsgBox "Something" Else MsgBox "Nothing" End If Just change ComboBox1 to the name of your combobox... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Amber_D_Laws" wrote: In one of my subroutines I want to test for an option in a certian combobox. It doesn't matter which option the user has choosen, just that they have chosen one at all. How do I word the If statement to test for this. Thanks in advance for any help! Amber :confused: -- Amber_D_Laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30012 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=509553 -- Amber_D_Laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30012 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=509553 -- Amber_D_Laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30012 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=509553 |
If statement for a combo box
Jim, Why is it that the simplest things can make us feel so stupid. I mean, well... duh.... Len=Length, my god could it be more obvious. Sometimes I think I must not be thinking when I ask these things. :) Thanks! Jim Thomlinson Wrote: The Len function returns the length of a string. -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Amber_D_Laws" wrote: Makes perfect sense Jim. I appreciate the explination. However, it leads me to a second question. What does "Len" mean in coding terms? Amber Jim Thomlinson Wrote: CBool is like Cint or CStr. It converts what you have to a data type. In this case a boolean. This works because in a computer 0 is false and everything else is true. So if the lenght is 0 CBool returns False. If the length is anything other than 0 then CBool returns True. You could also write the function... If Len(ComboBox1.Text)0 Then MsgBox "Something" Else MsgBox "Nothing" End If Either way is just fine. -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Amber_D_Laws" wrote: Thank You Jim, What you have seems to make sense, but I am unfamilar with "CBool" and "Len". What exactly do these functions(?) do? This question is of course out of pure curiosity. The meat of the matter is that presumably the code you provided will test for any selection in the combobox by testing for any lenght of text. Which if I am reading what you wrote correctly, means that I can just paste in the code I have written (the stuff I want it to do if the user has made a selection in the combo box) into where you have MsgBox "Something". Right? Regards, Amber:) Jim Thomlinson Wrote: This check the length of the text in the combobox... If CBool(Len(ComboBox1.Text)) Then MsgBox "Something" Else MsgBox "Nothing" End If Just change ComboBox1 to the name of your combobox... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Amber_D_Laws" wrote: In one of my subroutines I want to test for an option in a certian combobox. It doesn't matter which option the user has choosen, just that they have chosen one at all. How do I word the If statement to test for this. Thanks in advance for any help! Amber :confused: -- Amber_D_Laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30012 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=509553 -- Amber_D_Laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30012 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=509553 -- Amber_D_Laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30012 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=509553 -- Amber_D_Laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30012 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=509553 |
If statement for a combo box
Sorry I didn't respond sooner Tom, your comment kinda slipped by me. So, after reading... Which property controls if the user can use typed in entries or not? I have wanted to change that, but I didn't know I could. Tom Ogilvy Wrote: For an ActiveX combobox from the Control toolbox toolbar, if you limit the selection to items in the list you can use if Combobox1.ListIndex < -1 then ' as selection has been made If you don't want to allow type in entries (required an item in the list -they can still type that item in), you should set its properties so they are not allowed. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Amber_D_Laws" wrote in message news:Amber_D_Laws.22vppa_1139349003.9848@excelforu m-nospam.com... In one of my subroutines I want to test for an option in a certian combobox. It doesn't matter which option the user has choosen, just that they have chosen one at all. How do I word the If statement to test for this. Thanks in advance for any help! Amber :confused: -- Amber_D_Laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30012 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=509553 -- Amber_D_Laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30012 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=509553 |
If statement for a combo box
Nevermind.....I found it. Match Required! Thanks for the advice, and the code worked like a charm, as usual. What would I do without you Tom? Sincerely, Amber Amber_D_Laws Wrote: Sorry I didn't respond sooner Tom, your comment kinda slipped by me. So, after reading... Which property controls if the user can use typed in entries or not? I have wanted to change that, but I didn't know I could. -- Amber_D_Laws ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amber_D_Laws's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30012 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=509553 |
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