Howto Use TOpenDialog: what changed
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Title: Howto Use TOpenDialog
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| 1 | + | Simple and short guidelines: | |
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| 3 | + | 1\. Place a [[TOpenDialog]] widget  on your [[TForm|form]]. It can be placed anywhere on your form as it is not visible during program [[runtime|run time]] but only during design time. | |
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| 5 | + | ` ` | |
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| 7 | + | It is located in the [[Dialogs tab]] of the [[Component Palette|component palette]] and is the leftmost component. | |
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| 9 | + | 2\. In your code write something similar to: | |
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| 11 | + | ``` pascal | |
| 12 | + | if OpenDialog1.Execute then | |
| 13 | + | begin | |
| 14 | + | if fileExists(OpenDialog1.Filename) then | |
| 15 | + | ShowMessage(OpenDialog1.Filename); | |
| 16 | + | end | |
| 17 | + | else | |
| 18 | + | ShowMessage('No file selected'); | |
| 19 | + | ``` | |
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| 21 | + | The dialog [[doc:lcl/dialogs/tcommondialog.execute.html|Execute]] [[Method|method]] displays the file open dialog. It returns [[True|true]] when user has selected a file, [[False|false]] when user has aborted. | |
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| 23 | + | The dialog [[doc:lcl/dialogs/tfiledialog.filename.html|Filename]] [[Property|property]] returns the full filename including drive and path. | |
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| 25 | + | > **Note:** This control only collects the filename. It does not actually open the file. Your code must do that. | |
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| 27 | + | ## See also | |
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| 29 | + | - [[Howto Use TSaveDialog]] | |
| 30 | + | - [[CopyFile]] | |
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| 32 | + | --- | |
| 33 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Howto Use TOpenDialog", as it stood on 2021-03-27 after a change by Trev, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* |