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Populating TreeViews – PB Docs 70 – PowerBuilder Library

Populating TreeViews – PB Docs 70

Populating TreeViews

You must write a script to add items to a TreeView. You can’t
add items in the painter as with other list controls. Although you
could populate all the levels of the TreeView at once, TreeView
events allow you to populate only branches the user looks at, which
saves unnecessary processing.

Typically, you populate the first level of the TreeView when
the control is displayed. This code might be in a window’s
Open event, a user event triggered from the Open event, or the TreeView’s
Constructor event. Then a script for the control’s ItemPopulate
event would insert an item’s children when the user chooses
to expand it.

The ItemPopulate event is triggered when the user clicks on
an item’s plus button or double-clicks the item, but only
if the item’s Children property is TRUE. Therefore, when
you insert an item that will have children, you must set its Children
property to TRUE so that it can be populated with child items when
the user expands it.

You aren’t restricted to adding items in the ItemPopulate
event. For example, you might let the user insert items by dragging
from a ListBox or filling in a textbox.

Functions for inserting items

There are several functions for adding items to a TreeView
control:

This function Adds an item here
InsertItem After a sibling item for the specified
parent. If no siblings exist, you must use one of the other insertion
functions
InsertItemFirst First child of the parent item
InsertItemLast Last child of the parent item
InsertItemSort As a child of the parent item in alphabetic
order if possible

For all the InsertItem functions, the SortType property can
also affect the position of the added item.

There are two ways to supply information about the item you
add, depending on the item properties that need to be set.

Method 1: specifying the label and picture index
only

You can add an item by supplying the picture index and label.
All the other properties of the item will have default values. You
can set additional properties later as needed, using the item’s
handle.

Example This example inserts a new item after the currently selected
item on the same level as that item. First it gets the handles of
the currently selected item and its parent, and then it inserts
an item labeled Hindemith
after the currently
selected item. The item’s picture index is 2:

Method 2: setting item properties in a TreeViewItem structure

You can add items by supplying a TreeViewItem structure with
properties set to specific values. The only required property is
a label. Properties you might set are:

Property Value
Label The text that is displayed for the item
PictureIndex A value from the regular picture list
SelectedPictureIndex A value from the regular picture list,
specifying a picture that is displayed only when the item is selected.
If 0, no picture is displayed for the item when selected
StatePictureIndex A value from the State picture list.
The picture is displayed to the left of the regular picture
Children Must be TRUE if you want double-clicking
to trigger the ItemPopulate event. That event script can insert
child items
Data An optional value of any data type that
you want to associate with the item. You might use the value to
control sorting or for a database query

Example This example sets all these properties in a TreeViewItem structure before
adding the item to the TreeView control. The item is inserted as
a child of the current item:

For more information about inserting items
into a TreeView control, see the PowerScript Reference
.

Inserting items at the root level

The very first item you insert does not have any sibling for
specifying a relative position, so you can’t use the InsertItem
function–you must use InsertItemFirst or InsertItemLast.
For an item inserted at the root level, you specify 0 as its parent.

This sample code is in a user event triggered from the Open
event of the window containing the TreeView. It assumes two instance
variable arrays:

  • A string array called item_label
    that contains labels for all the items that will be inserted at
    the root level (here composer names)
  • An integer array that has values for the Data property
    (the century for each composer); the century value is for user-defined
    sorting













After inserting all the items, this code scrolls the TreeView
back to the top and makes the first item current:

Inserting items below the root level

The first time a user tries to expand an item to see its children, PowerBuilder triggers
the ItemPopulate event if and only if
the value
of the item’s Children property is TRUE. In the ItemPopulate
event, you can add child items for the item being expanded.

note.gif Parent item’s Children property If the ItemPopulate event doesn’t occur when you
expect, make sure the Children property for the expanding item is
TRUE. It should be set to TRUE for any item that will have children.

Inserting items not restricted to the ItemPopulate
event
The ItemPopulate event helps you design an efficient program.
It won’t populate an item that the user never looks at.
However, you don’t have to wait until the user wants to
view an item’s children–you can add children in
any script, just as you added items at the root level.

For example, you might fully populate a small TreeView when
its window opens and use the ExpandAll function to display its items
fully expanded.

Has an item been populated? You can check an item’s ExpandedOnce property to
find out if the user has looked at the item’s children.
If the user is currently looking at an item’s children,
the Expanded property is also TRUE.

Example This TreeView lists composers and their music organized into categories.
The script for its ItemPopulate event checks whether the item being expanded
is at level 1 (a composer) or level 2 (a category). Level 3 items
are not expandable.

For a level 1 item, the script adds three standard categories.
For a level 2 item, it adds pieces of music to the category being
expanded, in this pattern:

This is the script for ItemPopulate:


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