[lonesome_wolf2000]

I was wondering what would be the best way to store the contents of a list box, so that I can reopen it at runtime and have the data imported back into the list box?

[lonesome_wolf2000]

what im trying to do is to make a program that is like a shortcut for other programs.

you point the program to the directory for an exe file, then, stores a brief description of the program in the list. Then click on the item in the list then click on "run selected program"

i want it to be able to restore a list of the programs that have already been entered.

should I do this through registry? or through files? need help on how to with both


thanks

[TimCottee]

The choice is yours really, one advantage of using the registry is that by default this is customised to each individual user on the computer as the default registry methods in VB use the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive of the registry. Using file methods you would have to handle this yourself. Personally I would go with the registry.

Private Sub cmdSaveList_Click()
  Dim intItem As Integer
  For intItem = 0 To List1.ListCount - 1
    SaveSetting App.Title,"Program List","Program " & CStr(intItem + 1),List1.List(intItem)
  Next
End Sub

Private Sub cmdRetrieveList_Click()
  Dim intItem As Integer
  List1.Clear
  For intItem = 1 To 10 
    List1.AddItem GetSetting(App.Title,"Program List","Program " & CStr(intItem),"No Program Stored")
  Next
End Sub

Obviously this is a basic example and doesn't allow for much flexibility or handling of invalid entries etc. The biggest issue with using this method is that the number of programs is defined as 10 to retrieve regardless of how many are stored. There is a solution to this (there almost always is) and that is to use the GetAllSettings function.