I have a CheckedListBox
bound to a DataTable
. Now I need to check some items programmatically, but I find that the SetItemChecked(...)
method only accepts the item index.
Is there a practical way to get an item by text/label, without knowing the item index?
(NOTE: I've got limited experience with WinForms...)
You can implement your own SetItemChecked(string item);
private void SetItemChecked(string item)
{
int index = GetItemIndex(item);
if (index < 0) return;
myCheckedListBox.SetItemChecked(index, true);
}
private int GetItemIndex(string item)
{
int index = 0;
foreach (object o in myCheckedListBox.Items)
{
if (item == o.ToString())
{
return index;
}
index++;
}
return -1;
}
The checkListBox uses object.ToString()
to show items in the list. You you can implement a method that search across all objects.ToString() to get an item index. Once you have the item index, you can call SetItemChecked(int, bool);
Hope it helps.
You may try to browse your Datatable. YOu can do a foreach on the DataTabke.Rows property or use SQL syntax as below:
DataTable dtTable = ...
DataRow[] drMatchingItems = dtTable.Select("label = 'plop' OR label like '%ploup%'"); // I assumed there is a "label" column in your table
int itemPos = drMatchingItems[0][id]; // take first item, TODO: do some checking of the length/matching rows
Cheers,