How to remove node and its object from TTreeView
I am using Delphi 10 Starter edition. I am learning how to use a Delphi component TTreeView
.
Everything works, no problem. The only question remains:
After adding an object to a node, what's the way to remove the element and its object?
Here is my code (see Button6Click
):
type
TMyNode2 = class
public
nom: Integer;
comm: String;
end;
var
Form1: TForm1;
MyNode2: TMyNode2;
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); // add node
var
x: TTreeNode;
begin
x := tv1.Items.Add(tv1.Selected, Edit1.Text + ' ' + IntToStr(Round(Random(100))));
x.ImageIndex := 1;
x.SelectedIndex := x.ImageIndex;
x.StateIndex := x.ImageIndex;
end;
procedure TForm1.Button4Click(Sender: TObject); // add child node
var
x: TTreeNode;
begin
x := tv1.Items.AddChild(tv1.Selected, 'Child ' + Edit1.Text + ' ' + IntToStr(Round(Random(100))));
x.ImageIndex := 2;
x.SelectedIndex := x.ImageIndex;
x.StateIndex := x.ImageIndex;
tv1.Selected.Expand(true);
x.Selected := true;
x.Expand(true);
end;
procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject); // del node (if not 1st)
var
x, y: TTreeNode;
begin
y := tv1.Items[0];
x := tv1.Selected;
if x <> y then
x.Delete
else
ShowMessage('Do not del 1st node!');
end;
procedure TForm1.Button3Click(Sender: TObject); // add node (v.2 as object)
var
x: TTreeNode;
begin
MyNode2 := TMyNode2.Create;
MyNode2.nom := Round(Random(1000));
MyNode2.comm := IntToStr(MyNode2.nom) + ' comment ' + IntToStr(MyNode2.nom);
x := tv1.Items.AddObject(tv1.Selected, Edit1.Text + ' ' + IntToStr(Round(Random(1000))), Pointer(MyNode2));
x.ImageIndex := 3;
x.SelectedIndex := x.ImageIndex;
x.StateIndex := x.ImageIndex;
tv1.Selected.Expand(true);
x.Selected := true;
x.Expand(true);
end;
procedure TForm1.Button5Click(Sender: TObject); // add child node (v.2 as object)
var
x: TTreeNode;
begin
MyNode2 := TMyNode2.Create;
MyNode2.nom := Round(Random(1000));
MyNode2.comm := IntToStr(MyNode2.nom) + ' child comment ' + IntToStr(MyNode2.nom);
x := tv1.Items.AddChildObject(tv1.Selected, Edit1.Text + ' ' + IntToStr(Round(Random(1000))), Pointer(MyNode2));
x.ImageIndex := 4;
x.SelectedIndex := x.ImageIndex;
x.StateIndex := x.ImageIndex;
tv1.Selected.Expand(true);
x.Selected := true;
x.Expand(true);
end;
procedure TForm1.Button6Click(Sender: TObject); // del node (if not 1st) and "as" object
var
x, y: TTreeNode;
begin
y := tv1.Items[0];
x := tv1.Selected;
if x <> y then begin
//class(x.tMyNode2(node.Data)).Free; // **** // !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
x.Delete;
end else
ShowMessage('Do not del 1st node!');
end;
procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject); // on create - add data 2 1st node
var
x: TTreeNode;
begin
MyNode2 := TMyNode2.Create;
MyNode2.nom := 100001;
MyNode2.comm := '1st node comment';
x := tv1.Items[0];
x.Data := Pointer(MyNode2);
end;
procedure TForm1.tv1Change(Sender: TObject; Node: TTreeNode); // look node prop.
begin
if Node = nil then
Caption:='Not select'
else
if Node.Data = nil then
Caption := Format('Nom: %d, Im.Ind: %d', [Integer(Node.Index), Integer(Node.ImageIndex)])
else
Caption := Format('Nom: %d, Im.Ind: %d, MyNode.Nom: %d, Comm: %s', [Integer(Node.Index), Integer(Node.ImageIndex), Integer(TMyNode2(node.Data).nom), string(TMyNode2(node.Data).comm)]);
end;
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Use the TreeView event OnDeletion
that fires when TTreeNode
removed from the tree:
procedure TForm1.tv1Deletion(Sender: TObject; Node: TTreeNode);
begin
TMyNode2(Node.Data).Free;
// or simply:
// TObject(Node.Data).Free;
end;
Thus:
procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
// del node (if not 1st)
var
x, y: TTreeNode;
begin
x := tv1.Selected;
if x <> nil then
begin
y := tv1.Items.GetFirstNode;
if x <> y then
x.Delete
else
ShowMessage('Do not del 1st node!');
end;
end;
procedure TForm1.Button6Click(Sender: TObject);
// del node (if not 1st) and its object
var
x, y: TTreeNode;
begin
x := tv1.Selected;
if x <> nil then
begin
y := tv1.Items.GetFirstNode;
if x <> y then
x.Delete
else
ShowMessage('Do not del 1st node!');
end;
end;
As you can see, Button2Click()
and are Button6Click()
now identical, so you can delete one of them. If you really don't want to Button2Click()
not free the node object, in which case you can simply set x.Data
in nil
before the call x.Delete()
(you are still responsible for keeping track of the object somewhere so you can free it later, otherwise it will leak):
procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
// del node (if not 1st) but not its object
var
x, y: TTreeNode;
begin
x := tv1.Selected;
if x <> nil then
begin
y := tv1.Items.GetFirstNode;
if x <> y then
begin
x.Data := nil; // <-- !!!
x.Delete;
end else
ShowMessage('Do not del 1st node!');
end;
end;
procedure TForm1.Button6Click(Sender: TObject);
// del node (if not 1st) and its object
var
x, y: TTreeNode;
begin
x := tv1.Selected;
if x <> nil then
begin
y := tv1.Items.GetFirstNode;
if x <> y then
x.Delete
else
ShowMessage('Do not del 1st node!');
end;
end;
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