How to make a Delphi TSpeedButton stay pressed if it's the only one in the group
Question
I'm not sure why the TSpeedButton has this property but when a TSpeedButton is the only button of a given groupindex, it doesn't stay pressed, whether or not "AllowAllUp" is pressed. Maybe a Jedi control would suffice, but hopefully there's some fix. Any help or anecdotes are appreciated.
BTW, I'm (still) using Delphi 7, not sure if this is an across the board conundrum.
Solution
I have no D7 here, but in D2006 a Speedbutton stays down if the GroupIndex has a value > 0.
If this is not the behaviour you wish, you can set the Down-Property manually in the OnClick-Eventhandler (make sure, that the GroupIndex is 0).
OTHER TIPS
I just tried that in Delphi 7 (Build 4.453):
- create new application
- add
TSpeedButton
to form - set
AllowAllUp := true;
- set
GroupIndex := 1;
- run application
When clicking the button it toggles its down state without any other code needed.
knight_killer is correct. i can tell you it'll work in any version of delphi:
object SpeedButton1: TSpeedButton
Left = 152
Top = 384
Width = 23
Height = 22
AllowAllUp = True
GroupIndex = 99
end
Delphi does the work for you so "don't write ANY CODE".
In the IDE select ALL of your SpeedButtons that you want to operate as a group and then set the whole group's "GroupIndex" to something other than "0" and you are done -- with NO CODE -- NADA!!
Hm, strange, I remember using this quite a few times with success. Perhaps you should try playing with the SpeedButton's Down
property? I don't think it toggles automatically when you click it --- you should explicitly toggle Down
, I guess...
[edit: replaced Checked
with Down
--- TSpeedButton doesn't have a Checked
property, sorry!]
To get this to work, you can't just toggle the Down property, because it is always down in the OnClick event. You need to have another value:
procedure TForm1.SpeedButton1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
MyBoolProperty := not MyBoolProperty;
SpeedButton1.Down := MyBoolProperty;
end;
The trick is to set the GroupIndex to a unique value and set AllowAllUp to true. If you forget the first, it will not stay down, if you forget the second, it will not stay up, once it has been down.
Set AllowAllUp to True.
Set GroupIndex to non 0.
To keep it all in the OnClick, try
with Speedbutton1 do
begin
if tag = 1 then tag := 0 else tag := 1;
down := (tag = 1);
end;
GroupIndex
groups the buttons. Only one buttons in the group may be active. All of them needs to have the same index higher than 0
.
AllowAllUp
allows to switch button down and up, when it is clicked 2 times in a row.
I was searching for a solution for my problem and I think this is kind of the same one. I wanted to make a SpeedButton toggle the up and down state just like a switch, and I managed this by setting the properties:
AllowAllUp := True;
GroupIndex := 1;
Then in the OnClick
event of the button I wrote:
procedure TForm1.SpeedButton1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
if( SpeedButton1.AllowAllUp ) then
begin
SpeedButton1.AllowAllUp := False;
SpeedButton1.Down := True;
end else
begin
SpeedButton1.AllowAllUp := True;
SpeedButton1.Down := False;
end;
end;
This toggles the button down when it's clicked and up when it's clicked again.
Hope it'll be of any help
Set AllowAllup to true, and Down to false.
Then in OnClick
event:
....
btn.AllowAllUp := not btn.AllowAllUp;
btn.Down := not btn.Down;
....