I've implemented a search using the TFindDialog on my form. Everything works well except that I cannot find a way to mimic the "F3 - Find Next" behaviour as in Notepad. Once you have entered a search string, pressing F3 finds the next instance without opening the search dialog.
Regards, Pieter.
Here's a sketch how one could do this:
type
TForm1 = class(TForm)
FindDialog1: TFindDialog;
procedure FindDialog1Find(Sender: TObject);
procedure SearchFind1Execute(Sender: TObject);
procedure SearchFindNext1Execute(Sender: TObject);
private
FSearchText: string;
procedure Search;
end;
and
procedure TForm1.Search;
begin
// Do the real searching here...
MessageBox(Handle, PChar('Looking for "' + FSearchText + '".'), nil, 0);
end;
procedure TForm1.SearchFind1Execute(Sender: TObject);
begin
// Triggered by Ctrl-F
FindDialog1.FindText := FSearchText;
FindDialog1.Execute;
end;
procedure TForm1.SearchFindNext1Execute(Sender: TObject);
begin
// Triggered by F3
if FSearchText = '' then
SearchFind1.Execute
else
Search;
end;
procedure TForm1.FindDialog1Find(Sender: TObject);
begin
// Triggered by button click in FindDialog1
FSearchText := FindDialog1.FindText;
Search;
end;