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noszone

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Populate combobox with values and custom indexes
« on: June 21, 2021, 07:00:29 am »
I am quite new in objects and pointers, can anyone please advise how to populate combobox with values and custom indexes. For example:

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  1. cb1.Items.AddObject(value1, customIndex25);
  2. cb1.Items.AddObject(value2, customIndex100);

So when I will use
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  1. cb1.ItemIndex
it will return as following:
25
100

I've tried with objects, but no luck (it not returning an ID).

Thanks.
« Last Edit: June 21, 2021, 08:01:37 am by noszone »

egsuh

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Re: Populate combobox with values and custom indexes
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2021, 07:12:13 am »

Following example works.  You cannot customize indexex of items because they are TStrings property.

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  1. procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
  2. begin
  3.    combobox1.items.clear;
  4.    Combobox1.AddItem('Item A', TObject(12));
  5.    Combobox1.AddItem('Item B', TObject(25));
  6.    Combobox1.AddItem('Item C', TObject(33));
  7. end;
  8.  
  9. procedure TForm1.ComboBox1Change(Sender: TObject);
  10. var
  11.   Index: Integer;
  12.   s: string;
  13. begin
  14.   Index := ComboBox1.ItemIndex;
  15.   if Index <> -1 then begin
  16.     s := IntTostr(Integer(ComboBox1.Items.Objects[Index]));
  17.     ShowMessage(s)
  18.   end
  19.   else
  20.     ShowMessage('Nothing Selected');
  21. end;
  22.  

noszone

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Re: Populate combobox with values and custom indexes
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2021, 07:24:25 am »
Incredible, this is exactly what I looked for, thanks.

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Re: Populate combobox with values and custom indexes
« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2021, 11:20:14 am »
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  1.     s := IntTostr(Integer(ComboBox1.Items.Objects[Index]));
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Be careful, this code will crash in a 64-bit application where pointers (Combobox.Items.Objects[]) and integers have different size. Use PtrUInt or PtrInt rather than integer which are integer types having the same size as a pointer in any OS:

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  1.     s := IntTostr(PtrUInt(ComboBox1.Items.Objects[Index]));
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egsuh

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Re: Populate combobox with values and custom indexes
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2021, 11:28:16 am »
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Use PtrUInt or PtrInt rather than integer

Oh yes. This is really important information. I experienced some problem in similar occasion. Thank you very much.

noszone

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Re: Populate combobox with values and custom indexes
« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2021, 01:35:27 pm »
Such a pro tip, always learning something new :D.

 

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