| Get TreeView Node By Text | |||||||||||||||||||
| How to locate (search and select) a TreeView node given by node text using Delphi. | |||||||||||||||||||
Many times while developing Delphi applications using the TreeView component I've bumped into a situation to need to search for a tree node given by only the text of the node.
In this article I'll present you with one quick and easy function to get TreeView node by text.
![]() As you might imagine, the code will work something like: The most important part is the GetNodeByText function: This function simply iterates through all the nodes inside the ATree TreeView starting from the first node (ATree.Items[0]). The iteration uses the GetNext method of the TTreeView class to look for the next node in the ATree (looks inside all nodes of all child nodes). If the Node with text (label) given by AValue is found (case insensitive) the function returns the node. The boolean variable AVisible is used to make the node visible (if hidden).
This is the code that runs the 'Find Node' button OnClick event:
Note: If the node is located the code selects the node, if not a message is displayed. That's it! As simple as only Delphi can be. However, if you look twice, you'll see something is missing: the code will find the FIRST node given by AText! What if you want to search for a node at the same level as the calling node - where this calling node is also provided to the function! |
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