Thread: Problem showing item in TreeView

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    the Corvetter
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    Problem showing item in TreeView

    My application uses a TreeView control and I'm having trouble showing an item. The program compiles perfectly fine, but when I run it, there isn't the item in the TreeView like I thought I programmed in. Any ideas? Here's the code where it adds an element to the TreeView (or at least that I thought would add an element):
    Code:
    void InitTree(void)
    {
        TV_INSERTSTRUCT  tvs;
        TV_ITEM          tvi;
    
        tvs.hInsertAfter = TVI_LAST;
        tvi.mask = TVIF_TEXT;
    
        tvi.pszText = TEXT("test");
        tvs.hParent = TVI_ROOT;
        tvs.item = tvi;
        hTreeItem = TreeView_InsertItem(hTreeWndCtrl, &tvs);
        hTreeCurrent = hTreeItem;
    }
    Any ideas why I can't get my element to show up? What do I need to change/do?

    Thanks!
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    the Corvetter
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    Any ideas? Do you need to see more code? Please help.
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    Yes, my avatar is stolen anonytmouse's Avatar
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    I could pretend that I knew this off the top of my head, but the truth is that I spent thirty seconds reading the documentation.

    TVIF_TEXT
    The pszText and cchTextMax members are valid.
    Code:
    void InitTree(void)
    {
        TVINSERTSTRUCT tvs = { 0 };
    
        tvs.hInsertAfter    = TVI_LAST;
        tvs.hParent         = TVI_ROOT;
    
        tvs.item.mask       = TVIF_TEXT;
        tvs.item.pszText    = TEXT("test");
        tvs.item.cchTextMax = lstrlen(tvs.item.pszText);
    
        hTreeItem    = TreeView_InsertItem(hTreeWndCtrl, &tvs);
        hTreeCurrent = hTreeItem;
    }

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    Nope, didn't work. Any other ideas? I'm getting desparate now.
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    Yes, my avatar is stolen anonytmouse's Avatar
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    I have no idea. Have you checked that hTreeWndCtrl is valid? Called InitCommonControls? I'm sure someone here must have working treeview code. By the way, my last post may have been wrong, you may not need cchTextMax in this situation, although the documentation is unclear.

    The MSDN sample shows:
    Code:
        tvi.pszText = lpszItem; 
        tvi.cchTextMax = sizeof(tvi.pszText)/sizeof(tvi.pszText[0]);
    which is very wrong.

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