Hello All, I'm an e-student at a local college just learning the art of programming for the first time. For the most I’ve been able to muddle through the course using the books and without asking any questions. When I finally posed one, the instructors answer was, to say the lest, mystifying.With the hopes of getting a real answer I’ve decided to post my question here.
I am writing a relatively simple Sales Receipt program in VB.net with one “add to the list” button, a textbox to type in the “price”, a listbox to keep track of the numbers I’ve entered, and three more textboxes to tally the sub, tax, and total.
I’ve managed to accomplish the basic task of getting the textbox “price” into the listbox and maintaining the cursor focus on the textbox. I know how to calculate the sub, tax and total. But I can’t seem to wrap my head around the “How do I get the listbox accumulated into the subtotal textbox?”
A code that will add up the items in the list as they accumulate is not feasible. What I need I something a beginner can accomplish like taking the textbox “price” and add it, not only to the listbox as ive done, but also place it into the Subtotal textbox. Then with each additional "price", keep up with the addition.
Can it be done?
Here is my code so farPrivate Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim TextBox1 As Double
Dim ListBox1 As Double
Dim txtSubtotal As Double
Dim txtTax As Double
Dim txtTotal As Double
End Sub
Private Sub BtnAdd_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BtnAdd.Click
'Clear and Retain TextBox1 Focus
Dim Source As String
Source = TextBox1.Text
TextBox1.Text = ListBox1.Items.Add(Source)
If TextBox1.TextLength = 0 Then
TextBox1.Focus()
End If
If ListBox1.Items.Contains(Source) = True Then
TextBox1.Clear()
'Calculate amounts
Dim SubTotal As Decimal
Dim CurrentTaxRate As Decimal
Dim Tax As Decimal
Dim TotalDue As Decimal
txtSubTotal.Text = SubTotal
CurrentTaxRate = 0.065
Tax = CDec(SubTotal * (CurrentTaxRate))
txtTax.Text = (Tax)
TotalDue = (SubTotal + (Tax))
txtTotal.Text = (TotalDue)
'Format Sales Receipt as currency
Private Sub TextBox1_Leave(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TextBox1.Leave
TextBox1.Text = FormatCurrency(TextBox1.Text)
End Class
Someplace in there I need a running Subtotal for this to work. I hate to ask questions but I'm overlooking somthing and I need help.
Thanks for your time
H~