SelectedItem ToolTipText

[Yegg]

Can ne1 show me how to *correctly* use tooltiptexts for selecteditems in a listview, like what stealthbot, binarychat, and many other bots have.
I was trying to use the line of code: (lvChannel is my listview)

lvChannel.SelectedItem.ToolTipText = 'coding here

This didn't work, so i switched it around a few times, and it stil failed. so, can ne1 help me?

[CrAz3D]

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lvChannel.SelectedItem.ToolTipText = "Hi there dood"


[Yegg]

Ok, sorry for confusing you, but i know how 2 do that, but i want it to giv each item a different tooltiptext, this way it can show each users separate stats, when i refer to stats, i mean ping and username, product and flags, mayb more.

[BaDDBLooD]

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lvChannel.Item(lvChannel.FindItem(Username).Index).ToolTipText = "Hello!"


[UserLoser.]

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lvChannel.Item(lvChannel.FindItem(Username).Index).ToolTipText = "Hello!"


Note, that isn't a very good way to find a string in the listview.  I'd suggest looping through the contents, and checking for the name.  If you try to do lvChannel.FindItem("UserLoser").Index, and "UserLoser" doesn't exist, a runtime error will occur

[Warrior]

Id also Assume that your could just call you Username , Ping, and Statstring stuff .

Edit:Spelling

[Stealth]

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lvChannel.Item(lvChannel.FindItem(Username).Index).ToolTipText = "Hello!"


Note, that isn't a very good way to find a string in the listview.  I'd suggest looping through the contents, and checking for the name.  If you try to do lvChannel.FindItem("UserLoser").Index, and "UserLoser" doesn't exist, a runtime error will occur

But we use On Error Resume Next to cover it up, right?

If you're going to use FindItem, use it like this:

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   Dim Found as ListItem
   
   Set Found = lvChannel.FindItem("Username")

   If Not (Found Is Nothing) Then
       'do things with Found, ie Found.ToolTipText = "Hi!"
       Set Found = Nothing
   End If

That way, you destroy the reference to the found item when you're done, and you handle the chance that no item is found -- Found will be Nothing if it wasn't found.

[Michael]

Why not good old On Error Resume Next before the finditem code?

[Stealth]

Why not good old On Error Resume Next before the finditem code?

Why not actually handle the error as I did with a couple extra lines of code, rather than ignoring it? On Error Resume Next can cause problems down the road as your code progresses, it's best to avoid it whenever possible.

[Michael]

Hey, thanks for the info i never new that