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Asked: June 2, 20262026-06-02T07:08:50+00:00 2026-06-02T07:08:50+00:00

I want to check if an item has been selected in ListBox when user

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I want to check if an item has been selected in ListBox when user click on label
if i execute like that i got this error list index out of bounds

procedure TfrMain.Label15Click(Sender: TObject);
var
 saveDialog : TSaveDialog;
 FileContents: TStringStream;
 saveLine,Selected : String;
begin
 saveDialog := TSaveDialog.Create(self);
 saveDialog.Title := 'Save your text or word file';
 saveDialog.InitialDir := GetCurrentDir;
 saveDialog.Filter := 'text file|*.txt';
 saveDialog.DefaultExt := 'txt';
 saveDialog.FilterIndex := 1;

 Selected := ListBox1.Items.Strings[ListBox1.ItemIndex]; 

 if Selected <> '' then
 begin
  if saveDialog.Execute then
  begin
   FileContents := TStringStream.Create('', TEncoding.UTF8);
   FileContents.LoadFromFile(ListBox1.Items.Strings[ListBox1.ItemIndex]);
   FileContents.SaveToFile(saveDialog.Filename);
   ShowMessage('File : '+saveDialog.FileName)
  end
 else ShowMessage('Save file was not succesful');
  saveDialog.Free;
 end;
end;
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    2026-06-02T07:08:54+00:00Added an answer on June 2, 2026 at 7:08 am

    This code

    if Selected then
    

    will not compile because Selected is a string. I guess you were experimenting just before posting this.

    All the same you error messages and the question title suggests that ListBox1.ItemIndex is equal to -1. Hence the list index out of bounds error.

    You need to add a check that ListBox1.ItemIndex is not -1 before reading from the list box. ItemIndex=-1 is the way you detect that no item is selected. Your code should therefore look like this:

    .....
    saveDialog.DefaultExt := 'txt';  
    saveDialog.FilterIndex := 1; 
    if ListBox1.ItemIndex <> -1 then
    begin
    .....
    
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