Articles   Members Online:
-Article/Tip Search
-News Group Search over 21 Million news group articles.
-Delphi/Pascal
-CBuilder/C++
-C#Builder/C#
-JBuilder/Java
-Kylix
Member Area
-Home
-Account Center
-Top 10 NEW!!
-Submit Article/Tip
-Forums Upgraded!!
-My Articles
-Edit Information
-Login/Logout
-Become a Member
-Why sign up!
-Newsletter
-Chat Online!
-Indexes NEW!!
Employment
-Build your resume
-Find a job
-Post a job
-Resume Search
Contacts
-Contacts
-Feedbacks
-Link to us
-Privacy/Disclaimer
Embarcadero
Visit Embarcadero
Embarcadero Community
JEDI
Links
Revert all controls on a TForm to design-time values when clicking on a button a Turn on/off line numbers in source code. Switch to Orginial background IDE or DSP color Comment or reply to this aritlce/tip for discussion. Bookmark this article to my favorite article(s). Print this article
01-Mar-03
Category
VCL-General
Language
Delphi 3.x
Views
171
User Rating
No Votes
# Votes
0
Replies
0
Publisher:
DSP, Administrator
Reference URL:
DKB
			Author: Lou Adler

Is it possible to reset the state of controls like TEdit.text, TCheckBox.Checked, 
etc. at runtime to their original design-time values without assigning the property 
values for each control again?

Answer:

If I understand you correctly you want all controls on the form to revert to the 
design-time values when the user clicks the a cancel button, for example. The 
generic way would be to reload the controls from the form resource. The main 
problem is that you have to delete all components on the form first or you get a 
load of errors since the component loading code really creates new instances of all 
components on the form.

1   unit Unit1;
2   
3   interface
4   
5   uses
6     Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms, Dialogs, 
7   ExtCtrls,
8       StdCtrls;
9   
10  const
11    UM_RELOADFORM = WM_USER + 321;
12  
13  type
14    TForm1 = class(TForm)
15      Button1: TButton;
16      CheckBox1: TCheckBox;
17      CheckBox2: TCheckBox;
18      CheckBox3: TCheckBox;
19      RadioGroup1: TRadioGroup;
20      RadioGroup2: TRadioGroup;
21      CheckBox4: TCheckBox;
22      CheckBox5: TCheckBox;
23      procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
24    private
25      { Private declarations }
26      procedure UMReloadForm(var msg: TMessage); message UM_RELOADFORM;
27    public
28      { Public declarations }
29    end;
30  
31  var
32    Form1: TForm1;
33  
34  implementation
35  
36  {$R *.DFM}
37  
38  procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
39  begin
40    {Delay action until button click code has finished executing}
41    PostMessage(handle, UM_RELOADFORM, 0, 0);
42  end;
43  
44  procedure TForm1.UMReloadForm(var msg: TMessage);
45  var
46    i: Integer;
47    rs: TResourceStream;
48  begin
49    {Block form redrawing}
50    Perform(WM_SETREDRAW, 0, 0);
51    try
52      {Delete all components on the form}
53      for i := ComponentCount - 1 downto 0 do
54        Components[i].Free;
55      {Find the forms resource}
56      rs := TResourceStream.Create(FindClassHInstance(TForm1), Classname, RT_RCDATA);
57      try
58        {Recreate components from the form resource}
59        rs.ReadComponent(self);
60      finally
61        rs.free
62      end;
63    finally
64      {Redisplay form}
65      Perform(WM_SETREDRAW, 1, 0);
66      Invalidate;
67    end;
68  end;
69  
70  end.


			
Vote: How useful do you find this Article/Tip?
Bad Excellent
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

 

Advertisement
Share this page
Advertisement
Download from Google

Copyright © Mendozi Enterprises LLC