How to stop user from selecting more than a specific amount of items in a listbox in VBA?

[Mazon]

Hi


I have a ListBox control ListBox1 and my goal is that the user should only be able to 3 items in ListBox1. I don't want the user to be able to select a 4th item.

My question is how do I stop the user from selecting the 4th item in the ListBox control?

This is what I've tried so far:

I'm using the change event of the ListBox control to do the following:

1) I have made a loop that checks how many items are selected. The amount of items selected is stored in the variable intAmtSelected.
2) If 3 or more items are selected the ListBox control is disabled.
3) If less than 3 items are selected the ListBox control is again enabled.
4) If more than 3 items are selected it displays an error message

My problem is that the ListBox.Enabled function does not work, the user can still select more than 3 items in ListBox1. Anyone know of alternative ways to solve this?

Private Sub ListBox1_Change()
Dim intAmtSelected As Integer
Dim intA As Long

'Checks if there is more than 3 items selected
For intA = 0 To ListBox1.ListCount - 1
    If ListBox1.Selected(intA) = True Then
       intAmtSelected = intAmtSelected + 1
    End If
Next intA


'If more than 3 items are selected disables the ListBox control and prompts an error message
If intAmtSelected > 3 Then
    MsgBox "You are not allowed to select more than 3 items in total."
End If

'If more than 3 items are selected disable the listbox
If intAmtSelected >= 3 Then
    ListBox1.Enabled = False
End If

'if less than 3 items are selected enable the lisbox
If intAmtSelected < 3 Then
    ListBox1.Enabled = True
End If

End Sub

 

[skywriter]

Don't you have a command button that runs the final code that does something with the selected items in the list box, like write them to a worksheet?

I would have that code check the number of items and give them a message that they selected too many items and send them back to the list box or just exit the code after telling them to make the change and try again.

 

[Mazon]

Don't you have a command button that runs the final code that does something with the selected items in the list box, like write them to a worksheet?

I would have that code check the number of items and give them a message that they selected too many items and send them back to the list box or just exit the code after telling them to make the change and try again.

Yes I do, but I wanted to solve this specifically with the change event of the ListBox control. I managed to solve this by creating a another loop that deselects the latest item if the amount of items selected is greater than 3.l