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mfoster711
Regular Contributor
11 years ago
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User Form text of selected item

How do you get the text of the currently selected item in a tcxListBox control of a User Form? I seem to be spinning my wheels and not finding the solution.
  • paul_scroce's avatar
    paul_scroce
    11 years ago


    Hi Mark



    According to this article http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/28763/



    The ItemIndex property specifies the index of the currently selected list box item.

    The Items property returns the TStrings which contains the list of strings displayed by the component.



    So this would get the text of the currently selected item

    Set TStringsObj = TcxListBoxObj.Items

    String = TStringsObj.Items(TcxListBoxObj.ItemIndex)


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paul_scroce
Frequent Contributor
11 years ago


Hi Mark



According to this article http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/28763/



The ItemIndex property specifies the index of the currently selected list box item.

The Items property returns the TStrings which contains the list of strings displayed by the component.



So this would get the text of the currently selected item

Set TStringsObj = TcxListBoxObj.Items

String = TStringsObj.Items(TcxListBoxObj.ItemIndex)


  • vik33's avatar
    vik33
    Occasional Contributor
    10 years ago

    Hello there,

    I am having hard time in fetching the selected item of a TcxListBox control. I am using testcomplete 10.50.XXX version.

     

    This is what i am doing:

    Set obj_lst_Din = UserForms.UserForm_Kroll.lst_DINs  'lst_DINs is the name of the listbox

    var_Selected_Count = obj_lst_Din.SelCount

    For i = 0 To UserForms.UserForm_Kroll.lst_DINs.Items.Count -1
                  If UserForms.UserForm_Kroll.lst_DINs.Selected(i) then
                                   'do something 
                   End if
    Next

     

    1. To my surprise, control never goes inside the If statement when i click on any item of a TcxListBox.

    2. Another thing is(which might be the cause), For some reason, i am unable to trigger OnClick event at all when i click on any item of a TcxListBox

    Instead, the event that triggers is - _OnEnter , so i started writing my code inside _OnEnter event

    3. var_Selected_Count is always 0.

     

    I have no clue why item is not shown as selected at run time when i click on the item of a  TcxListBox.

     

    Please help.

    Thanks,

    • Andrey_M's avatar
      Andrey_M
      Contributor
      10 years ago

      Hi vik33.

       

      When you assign obj_lst_Din.SelCount to variable, the actual value (not reference to) of property (.SelCount) gets copied into variable. That means this variable does not reflect future changes of property value, this is expected behaviour.

       

      Here sample of project with list box (unfortunately, current forum engine does not allow to attach zips to post directly, I used my MS OneDrive storage; I will delete this link in couple of weeks). Click handler works perfectly well (I used your cycle in composition of selected items list).

       

      Regards,

      Andrey

      • vik33's avatar
        vik33
        Occasional Contributor
        10 years ago

        Dear Andrey_M,

        I really appreciate your reply along with an example. It really helped me to understatnd the concept. 

        Many Thanks for your help.

         

        Regards,

        Vik