---
name: "lbSetSelected"
type: command
status: ok
groups: ["GUI Control - ListBox"]
arma3_since: "0.50"
locality: {"argument": null, "effect": null, "server_exec": false}
source: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/lbSetSelected
revid: 352415
updated: 2024-02-09T15:26:07Z
---

# lbSetSelected

*Command · GUI Control - ListBox · Arma 3 v0.50 · introduced in Armed Assault v1.00*

## Description

Sets the selection state of the given row of the given listbox of style LB_MULTI.
The command has to be called for every row which is needed to be selected in multi-selection listbox. Use negative index -1 to select/deselect all rows (since Arma 3 v2.12).
For single selection listbox use [lbSetCurSel](../commands/lbSetCurSel.md) instead.

## Syntax

```sqf
control lbSetSelected [index, selected, forceEH]
```

**Parameters:**

- `control`: [Control](../topics/Control.md)
- `index`: [Number](../topics/Number.md) or since Arma 3 v2.12 [Array](../topics/Array.md) of [Number](../topics/Number.md)s
- `selected`: [Boolean](../topics/Boolean.md)
- `forceEH`: [Boolean](../topics/Boolean.md) - (Optional, default [false](../commands/false.md)) will force [lbSelChanged](../topics/User_Interface_Event_Handlers.md#onlbselchanged) EH to fire *(since arma3 2.12)*

**Returns:** [Nothing](../topics/Nothing.md)

## Examples

### Example 1

```sqf
_control lbSetSelected [0, true];
```

## See also

[lbAdd](../commands/lbAdd.md) · [lbClear](../commands/lbClear.md) · [lbColor](../commands/lbColor.md) · [lbCurSel](../commands/lbCurSel.md) · [lbData](../commands/lbData.md) · [lbDelete](../commands/lbDelete.md) · [lbIsSelected](../commands/lbIsSelected.md) · [lbPicture](../commands/lbPicture.md) · [lbSelection](../commands/lbSelection.md) · [lbSetColor](../commands/lbSetColor.md) · [lbSetCurSel](../commands/lbSetCurSel.md) · [lbSetData](../commands/lbSetData.md) · [lbSetPicture](../commands/lbSetPicture.md) · [lbSetTooltip](../commands/lbSetTooltip.md) · [lbSetValue](../commands/lbSetValue.md) · [lbSize](../commands/lbSize.md) · [lbSort](../commands/lbSort.md) · [lbSortByValue](../commands/lbSortByValue.md) · [lbText](../commands/lbText.md) · [lbValue](../commands/lbValue.md)

<sub>Source: [BI Community Wiki — lbSetSelected](https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/lbSetSelected) (revision 352415).</sub>