delphi comboBox

Question

how does one get the picked value of a combo box from delphi 7

lets say it has items, how does one know which row (item) was picked?

Solution 1

You find the selected item with:

combobox.ItemIndex; // -1 if none

You can get the value using

combobox.Items[combobox.ItemIndex]

Solution 2

combobox.text will hold the value which was selected

Comments

[David Heffernan]

obviously you get an error if you write combobox.Items[combobox.ItemIndex] without checking that combobox.ItemIndex<>-1 first

[Toby Allen]

One issue here however is if the combobox allows editing the text may not match any of the items, which is worth noting.

[Haywood Chablowme]

since i have no enough points to comment previous answer i needed to put it as separate answer. Toby's comment actually warns about same thing.