Implementing the On Item Checked Event for the TListView Control

The TListView Delphi control displays a list of items in a fashion similar to how Windows Explorer displays files and folders.

ViewStyle := Report; CheckBoxes := True;

The WindowProc is a special procedure every TControl uses to respond to messages sent to the control.

Here‘s how to get notified when an item in the list view is checked or un-checked:

1. Drop a TListView (name "ListView1") on a Delphi form. Add some items to the list view.
2. Set ViewStyle to vsReport,
3. Set CheckBoxes to true,
4. In the form‘s OnCreate event hijack the ListView1‘s WindowProc.
5. If the message being processed in CN_Notify (Delphi extension to the WM_NOTIFY message) and if the notification message is "LVN_ITEMCHANGED",
6. Read the tagNMLISTVIEW record to grab additional data.
7. If this is a state change (LVIF_STATE) and if the state of an item changes (LVIS_STATEIMAGEMASK) grab the changed item, read it‘s Checked property.

uses CommCtrl;  

procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject) ;
begin
  OriginalListViewWindowProc := ListView1.WindowProc;
   ListView1.WindowProc := ListViewWindowProcEx;
  end;  

  procedure TForm1.ListViewWindowProcEx(var Message: TMessage) ;
  var   listItem : TListItem;
begin   if Message.Msg = CN_NOTIFY then
begin
  if PNMHdr(Message.LParam)^.Code = LVN_ITEMCHANGED then
    begin
    with PNMListView(Message.LParam)^ do
   begin
    if (uChanged and LVIF_STATE) <> 0 then
      begin
           if ((uNewState and LVIS_STATEIMAGEMASK) shr 12) <> ((uOldState and LVIS_STATEIMAGEMASK) shr 12) then
             begin
                  listItem := listView1.Items[iItem];
                  memo1.Lines.Add(Format(‘%s checked:%s‘, [listItem.Caption, BoolToStr(listItem.Checked, True)])) ;
             end;
              end;
              end;
                end;
                end;   //original ListView message handling   

                OriginalListViewWindowProc(Message) ;
                end;
                procedure TForm1.GetCheckedButtonClick(Sender: TObject) ;
                var   li : TListItem;
             begin
             memo1.Lines.Clear;   memo1.Lines.Add(‘Checked Items:‘) ;
             for li in listView1.Items do
             begin
               if li.Checked then
             begin
               memo1.Lines.Add(Format(‘%s %s %s‘, [li.Caption, li.SubItems[0], li.SubItems[1]])) ;
             end;
            end;
           end; 

Note: Reading the description of the tagNMLISTVIEW record in the Windows API help, reveals that "uChanged" field notifies that the item attributes have changed. This field is zero for notifications that do not use it. Otherwise, it can have the same values as the mask member of the LVITEM record. Bits 12 through 15 of the "state" member specify the state image index. To isolate these bits, use the LVIS_STATEIMAGEMASK.