looping through checkboxes

[Demonicpagan]

I have this form where I am trying to place items from checked boxes
into a text box. An image of what this form looks like is at
http://www.stelth2000inc.com/images/screen.png

Here is some code I have done for the first 2 check boxes, name and
world, they do what I want them to do, but for the rest of the check
boxes, the codes would be a bit minotonous. Is there a better way of
doing this, maybe checkedboxlist?


Private Sub sigBtn_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles sigBtn.Click
Dim bbname As String = "

Name: " &
charNameTxt.Text & "

" & vbCrLf
Dim bbworld As String = "

World: " &
worldCombo.SelectedItem & "

" & vbCrLf


' Name check box checked
If chNameChk.Checked = True Then
signatureTxt.Text = ""
signatureTxt.Text = signatureTxt.Text & bbname
End If


' World check box checked
If worldChk.Checked = True Then
signatureTxt.Text = ""
signatureTxt.Text = signatureTxt.Text & bbworld
End If


' Name & world check boxes checked
If chNameChk.Checked = True And worldChk.Checked = True Then
signatureTxt.Text = ""
signatureTxt.Text = signatureTxt.Text & bbname & bbworld
End If


End Sub


The way that i am wanting this to work is the user selects items that
they would want in a forum signature. Each check box is representative

of items in other tabs in this program (i.e. Name is the Character name

which is a text box in the General Tab, World is a combo box in that
same tab). The user can select as many as all the check boxes or as
little as one check box. I was clearing the box and appending text to
the box in case user makes selections, clicks create signature, changes

their mind and selects other items, and clicks create signature again.
I didn't want the new selections following the old selections, but
rather overwrite what was previously there.

Ultimately output would look something like this if user was to select
the Character Name & World check boxes:


color=blue]Name: character name[/QUOTE]

World: character world

Just Name:

Name: character name

Just World:

Name: character name

World & Linkshell:

World: character world

Linkshell: linkshell

so on and so forth


The checkbox I have as Sex will be outputting either

Sex: Male

or


Sex: Female

based on what radio button was selected in the General Tab. How will I

need to go about handling this with the rest of what I'm trying to do?


Just for knowledge purposes, I am using Visual Basic 2005 Express
Edition to code this

 

[Morten Wennevik]

Hi,

No matter what path you decide to take you will have to do some coding.

What you want to do is use a StringBuilder and add items whenever needed.

Dim sb as new StringBuilder()

' Name check box checked
If chNameChk.Checked = True Then
sb.Append( bbname )
End If

' World check box checked
If worldChk.Checked = True Then
sb.Append( bbworld )
End If

' Repeat as needed
If chSexChk.Checked Then
sb.Append( bbsex )
End if

signatureTxt.Text = sb.ToString()

If you want to you could even store the strings in the CheckBox.Tag
property and simply do

For Each c as Control in Me.Controls
If c is GroupBox Then
For Each cb as CheckBox in c.Controls
If cb.Checked Then
sb.Append( cb.Tag.ToString() )
End If
Next
End If
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