VBA listbox change event

[kieran989]

Hi everyone,

I have a userform that contains 3 listboxes. This is userform1

To populate the listbox1 I click a commandbutton1 that takes me to a second userform (userform2). From here I select the data from another listbox4 (multiselect). Once I click the commmandbutton2 on userform2 it populates listbox1 with the selected data. It also adds lookup values to listbox2 based on the values added to listbox1 via a series of for loops.

This all works fine so far. Now I need Listbox3 to be populated based on selected data from Listbox 2. I have achieved this by making a Listbox2_change() routine and this also works well.

My problem is that it seems the listbox2_change event is triggered every time values are added to listbox2 when the CommandButton2 is clicked on userform2. I thought the solution would be to enclose the commandbutton2 routine with:

Application.EnableEvents = False

code...

Application.EnableEvents = True

But the listbox2_change event is still running? Does anyone know what I am doing wrong here?

Apologize if the wording is confusing....

list of objects

userform1
-listbox1
-listbox2 (multi select)
-listbox3 (multi select)
-commandbutton1

userform2
-listbox4 (multiselect)
-commandbutton2

[werafa]

Don't worry :)
you aint the only one with thinning hair

the trick is to use

me.enableevents=true

'me' references the parent object of the form or control you are on. it seems to be that the userform is different to the application - and this is why application.enableevents does not work.

werafa