array questions for a VB Learner?

i am having problems putting text from 8 tb's on a dialog form into an array and passing the data back to a mainform as a single object, i then want to put this object into an array of like objects and be able to display each of the values/references from a selected object in the mainform array of objects.

NE help would be greatly appreciated as i have read all the articles on arrays i can find and am still having trouble understanding them.

eg

df = dialogform
on dialogform OK click
dialogform.stringMsg() = an array of 8 textbox values
add stringMsg to mainform.objarray

mainform.list.add objarray
mainform.label.text = list.objarray.selectedValue

''''each of the values in the original stringMsg go into the label or to seperate textboxes''''

this is the basic structure of what i want to accomplish

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array questions for a VB Learner?

MarkEck911

You need to create an array, then put each value in.

Dim names(8) As String

names(0) = textBox1.Text

names(1) = textBox2.Text

names(2) = textBox3.Text

names(3) = textBox4.Text

names(4) = textBox5.Text

names(5) = textBox6.Text

names(6) = textBox7.Text

names(7) = textBox8.Text

maige
ok so i add a propertie for each of the textbox values to my class
then add the class to the mainform array is that right, like i said still learning,
so bear with me please, then i can call array.person.name or id or address orany other propertie of the person/class in the array
UnknownTT
I'd create a person class, and add instance of it with all this info. Anything else is just hacky.
Boris Vidolov MSFT
ok, i have seen reference to i think it is called overloading the .tostring method but dont understand, have seen en example in a code block before but dont understand how the string.format( ) works/what the values are

this is in the class that creates the object to format

Public Overrides Function ToString() As String

' Normally ToString returns the fully qualified typename.

' In this example it would be VBNET.HowTo.Arrays.Customer

' We are overriding it so that we can return a simple

' display string when we're added to a list box.

Return String.Format("Id={0}, Name={1}", Me.Id, Me.Name)

End Function

this displays the data
Private Sub DisplayArrayData(ByVal arr As Array)

Dim i As Integer

Dim u As Integer = (arr.Length - 1)

Me.listbox.Items.Clear()

For i = 0 To u

Me.listbox.Items.Add(String.Format("{0} = {1}", i, arr.GetValue(i).ToString()))

Next

End Sub
Kmaure1
Yes, that's exactly right. The idea is if you have a number of arrays, how can you be sure that a certain array index points to the same set of data across all the arrays Putting them all in an object ties the data belonging to one person to the one spot.
Mateusz www.Kierepka.pl
helps to add to thefirst array but wati want is

eg
Persons Array on mainform

Id(0) Name(0) address(0) Phone(0)

Id(1) Name(1) address(1) Phone(1)

Id(2) Name(2) address(2) Phone(2)

string array on dialog form

id(i) Name(i) address(i) Phone(i)

add string array to Persons array
then display a selected person from Persons array
God_Mark
me.label.text = person(name)

No - person.name is what you want.

me.label.text = person(i) & vbcrlf

No, the easiest thing to do is define ToString() so person(i).ToString prints out all of the details in the format you want

me.label.text = me.label.text & obj & vbcrlf

No, again, you need to use ToString, or some other method to format the data
poliveira
thank u very much is great help, just to clarify
'will it display name
me.label.text = person(name)             'name of person in people array

'and will this display all of a person       'person created from class
for i = 0 to 7
me.label.text = person(i) & vbcrlf

'and this will display all people             ' group or array of person(s)
for each obj in people
me.label.text = me.label.text & obj & vbcrlf
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