or just for the sake of argument, it would probably be easy to de-select all other checkboxes but the selected one in a little for loop on the Click event.
This might be useful in the case that the user interface requires this control to be temporarily in this mode. It would save the programmer from switching to a radio group to provide this feature. DJS --- Walter Prins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "dalewolver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 3:22 PM > Subject: [list] [delphi-en] Tchecklistbox, how to > disable multiselect > > > > Am trying to use the CheckListBox and only allow > single selection. > > However when I set MultiSelect to False, I can > still select many > > items. Delphi 7 > > Hi Dale, > > When you say "select", do you mean "tick", or do you > mean "highlight"? I ask > because I get the sense this may be the key to the > problem. To clarify: The > term "select" is generally meant to refer to > "highlighting", and > "multi-select" is like when you ctrl-click entries > to select multiple ones > at the same time (for example like in Windows > explorer.) It does not refer > to actually ticking the entries. Similarly, > "Extended select" refers to > seleting ranges of items (e.g. Shift-click etc.) > Apologies if you already > know this. Anyway, for the check listbox therefore > setting multi select to > false does not have any bearing on the number of > ticks you can tick. > (Setting multi select to false will disable > ctrl-clicking items, setting it > to true, will allow ctrl-clicking like in explorer.) > If you only want one > item to be "ticked" you should rather use a radio > button based control -- > tick box controls are meant to be used when > multiple ticks are possible, > whereas radio button controls are expressly meant > for the case where you > must select one option from a number of options. > > HTH > > Walter > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
