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[beginner91]

I am making a media player in a windows form application in microsoft visual studio. I have two forms - one for display the songs with buttons for playing, pausing and stopping the songs. The second form is for creating a playlist. This form has two listboxes with an add, remove and create button and a textbox to enter the name of the playlist. The first listbox displays all the songs in the media player and the second listbox is for the playlist which is populated by adding the songs from the first listbox.
So I have the code for the create playlist button but now I want to display the name of the playlists created in a listbox in the first form.
heres the code I used for creating the playlist:

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) //create playlist
 {
 
Playlist temp = new Playlist(textBoxPlaylist.Text);
 
foreach(string name in PlaylistTracks.Items)
        {
             temp.addSong(name);
        }

         myPlaylistsCollection.Add(temp);
  }

and i just have an empty listbox in the first form:

private void listBoxPlaylist_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
 
//need to display the playlists created
 
}

I don't know if the create playlist code is working since I'm not displaying the playlists anywhere but I hope someone can help me with this

 

[jmcilhinney]

First things first, you're not going to be populating the ListBox in its own SelectedIndexChanged event handler. That event is raised when the user selects an item, so the ListBox would have to be already populated for that to happen. You would most likely want to populate the ListBox when the form is opened, right? If so then that's what the Load event of the form is for.

As for the question, you would presumably need to get appropriate PlaylistsCollection and then bind that to the ListBox. I have no idea what a PlaylistsCollection is and how it is persisted so I can't help with the specifically. I could assume that it's a WMP class but if I'm wrong then I've wasted my time and yours.

 

[beginner91]

ok how to I change the ListBox to the load event?
and myPlaylistsCollection is an array I created

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I have attached my project in a zip file. Hopefully by looking through my code you can help me

 

[jmcilhinney]

I only download entire projects as a last resort. So that collection is just an ArrayList. What are the objects you add to it? Are they your own type or from somewhere else? Do you have any code to save that list?

 

[beginner91]

ok I have a class called Playlist:

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