Freeing memory taken up by SetItemData()

I'm using a CTreeCtrl and SetItemData to set the node data. It would make sense that the Win32 API would handle freeing this data, but it does not. Every time I create a layer in my editor, I leak 8 bytes per layer when closing the program.

How do I free this data? CTreeCtrl::DeleteAllItems() does not work.

The treeview control is only responsible for itself, not any data you assign.

Handle the control's TVN_DELETEITEM notification which will be issued as each item is deleted from the tree, thereby giving you a convenient opportunity to free up any memory you have assigned to the control.

Alternatively, if your data pointers have suitable scope, then you can clean up when the application quits (WM_CLOSE, WM_DESTROY).

If it's not actually your data that's the issue, then it may be a problem with mfc's implementation of the underlying winapi treeview control, in which case you may have to use the corresponding winapi macros/functions/messages directly to bypass the problem.

Thanks, I'll give it a go and see what happens.