I have a listbox named ListBox1 on Sheet1 of an excel workbook.
Everytime the user selects one of the items in the list, I need to copy its name to a variable named strLB.
So, if I have Value1, Value2, Value3, Value4 and the user selects Value1 and Value3, I need my strLB to come out as Value1,Value3. Pretty straightforward.
I tried doing that post hoc with:
For i = 1 To ActiveSheet.ListBoxes("ListBox1").ListCount
If ActiveSheet.ListBoxes("ListBox1").Selected(i) Then strLB = strLB & etc.etc.
Next i
But this is very slow (I actually have 15k values in my listbox). This is why I need to record the selection in real time and not in a cycle, after the user is done inputting.
Of course I'm going to also need a way to check if the user removed any of the previous selection.
Hope you guys can help!!
Unfortunately for MSForms list box looping through the list items and checking their Selected property is the only way. However, here is an alternative. I am storing/removing the selected item in a variable, you can do this in some remote cell and keep track of it :)
Dim StrSelection As String
Private Sub ListBox1_Change()
If ListBox1.Selected(ListBox1.ListIndex) Then
If StrSelection = "" Then
StrSelection = ListBox1.List(ListBox1.ListIndex)
Else
StrSelection = StrSelection & "," & ListBox1.List(ListBox1.ListIndex)
End If
Else
StrSelection = Replace(StrSelection, "," & ListBox1.List(ListBox1.ListIndex), "")
End If
End Sub
The accepted answer doesn't cut it because if a user de-selects a row the list is not updated accordingly.
Here is what I suggest instead:
Private Sub CommandButton2_Click()
Dim lItem As Long
For lItem = 0 To ListBox1.ListCount - 1
If ListBox1.Selected(lItem) = True Then
MsgBox(ListBox1.List(lItem))
End If
Next
End Sub
Courtesy of http://www.ozgrid.com/VBA/multi-select-listbox.htm
To get the value of the selected item of a listbox then use the following.
For Single Column ListBox:
ListBox1.List(ListBox1.ListIndex)
For Multi Column ListBox:
ListBox1.Column(column_number, ListBox1.ListIndex)
This avoids looping and is extremely more efficient.
Take selected value:
worksheet name = ordls
form control list box name = DEPDB1
selectvalue = ordls.Shapes("DEPDB1").ControlFormat.List(ordls.Shapes("DEPDB1").ControlFormat.Value)