Search a Userform Listbox for matching text from another Listbox

[rrenis]

Hi - I have the following Code I found hunting on google which I thought would allow me to search the results listed in ListBox2 based on the Selection in ListBox1.

The contents of ListBox1 is a list of files in a particular folder which have been truncated so as not to show the folder path. This is due to the long length of the folder names and sub folders.

I therefore added the full path and file names to ListBox2 (which I intend to hide using ListBox2.Visible = False once the userform is working) so that I could call on this to return the full path and filename of the selected file in ListBox1. The reason for this is that I want to launch the selected file and therefore need the full path along with the filename.

Here's the code I have so far but it's not working. I'm sure I'm doing something daft - or maybe someone can suggest a better way to acheive what I'm looking for?

[vba]
Private Declare Function ShellExecute _
Lib "shell32.dll" _
Alias "ShellExecuteA" ( _
ByVal hwnd As Long, _
ByVal lpOperation As String, _
ByVal lpFile As String, _
ByVal lpParameters As String, _
ByVal lpDirectory As String, _
ByVal nShowCmd As Long) _
As Long

Private Sub ListBox1_DblClick(ByVal Cancel As MSForms.ReturnBoolean)

Dim strFile As String
Dim strAction as String
Dim lngErr As Long

strFile = FindStringinListControl(ListBox2, ListBox1.Value)
strAction = "OPEN"
lngErr = ShellExecute(0, strAction, strFile, "", "", 0)

End Sub


Public Function FindStringinListControl(ListControl As Object, _
ByVal SearchText As String) As Long

'Input:
'ListControl: List or ComboBox Object
'SearchText: String to Search For
'Returns: ListIndex of Item if found
'or -1 if not found

Dim lHwnd As Long
Dim lMsg As Long
On Error Resume Next
lHwnd = ListControl.hWND
If TypeOf ListControl Is ListBox Then
lMsg = LB_FINDSTRINGEXACT
ElseIf TypeOf ListControl Is ComboBox Then
lMsg = CB_FINDSTRINGEXACT
Else
FindStringinListControl = -1
Exit Function
End If
FindStringinListControl = SendMessagebyString _
(lHwnd, lMsg, -1, SearchText)
End Function[/vba]

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
rrenis