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Drag and Drop ListBox items

This example shows you how to enable the user to drop and drag items between two list boxes. Add two listboxes to your form, and insert the following code.

Private Sub Form_Load()
    ' Populate the list
    List1.AddItem "James"
    List1.AddItem "Frederick"
    List1.AddItem "Ann"
    List1.AddItem "Paul"
    List1.AddItem "Sarah"
    List1.OLEDropMode = 1
    List2.OLEDropMode = 1
End Sub

' Code managing dropping from list one
' to list two
Private Sub List1_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
    List1.OLEDrag    ' Begin dragging
End Sub
Private Sub List1_OLEStartDrag(Data As DataObject, AllowedEffects As Long)
    ' Only allow moves
    AllowedEffects = vbDropEffectMove
    ' Assign the ListBox selection to the DataObject
    Data.SetData List1
End Sub
Private Sub List2_OLEDragDrop(Data As DataObject, Effect As Long, Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
    Dim strList As String
    ' Check the format of the DataObject
    If Not Data.GetFormat(vbCFText) Then Exit Sub
    ' Retrieve the text from the DataObject
    strList = Data.GetData(vbCFText)
    ' If the item was not dropped on itself
    If Not strList = List2.Text Then
        List2.AddItem strList
        'Remove the item from the ListBox
        List1.RemoveItem List1.ListIndex
    End If
End Sub
''
''
'' Code managing dropping from list one
'' to list two
''
Private Sub List2_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
    List2.OLEDrag    ' Begin dragging
End Sub
Private Sub List2_OLEStartDrag(Data As DataObject, AllowedEffects As Long)
    ' Only allow moves
    AllowedEffects = vbDropEffectMove
    ' Assign the ListBox selection to the DataObject
    Data.SetData List2
End Sub
Private Sub List1_OLEDragDrop(Data As DataObject, Effect As Long, Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
    Dim strList As String
    ' Check the format of the DataObject
    If Not Data.GetFormat(vbCFText) Then Exit Sub
    ' Retrieve the text from the DataObject
    strList = Data.GetData(vbCFText)
    ' If the item was not dropped on itself
    If Not strList = List1.Text Then
        List1.AddItem strList
        'Remove the item from the ListBox
        List2.RemoveItem List2.ListIndex
    End If
End Sub

Comments

  1. 12 Jan 2006 at 00:56

    Hello,


    I've been trying to adjust this code for listbox - label drag dropping, changed some things of course, but
    it doesn't seem to work.
    Can anyone help me ?
    thx

  2. 21 Apr 2005 at 15:14

    Trying to use this for listboxes in VBA. is there a specific reference library I may be missing/needed for this to work?

  3. 12 Nov 2003 at 03:55

    This works very fine for me.
    Thanks a lot
    paff

  4. 03 Oct 2003 at 01:08

    Nice work! Thanks James. Why not extend the code to allow for any number of listboxes by creating a  global control variable (set in MouseDown sub) which would identify the source list for the RemoveItem command in the DragDrop sub?

  5. 01 Jan 1999 at 00:00

    This thread is for discussions of Drag and Drop ListBox items.

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