Hello Rod,

Thank you again for your previous help. I have several projects going as I am trying to learn Visual Basic. You have given me immeasurable help in tying up many loose ends in those projects. I do have another question if it is not too much trouble.

I am working on a project to generate a type of document index in which the index will be in tree view, the same as Windows Explorer. My goal is that the end user will be able to create the list in tree view without of course having to write the code. After creating the list he will be able click on the various nodes and open up the desired file in the document index. Below I have included some of the code that I am using so the user can create the list.


Private Sub DocumentIndex_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnLevelOne.Click

Dim NewNodes As String
NewNodes = TextBox1.text
TreeView1.Nodes.Add(NewNodes)

End Sub




Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnLevelTwo.Click

Dim ChildNode As String
ChildNode = TextBox2.Text

Dim objNode As TreeNode
objNode = TreeView1.SelectedNode()
TreeView1.Nodes.Remove(TreeView1.SelectedNode)
TreeView1.Nodes.Add(objNode)
objNode.Nodes.Add(ChildNode)

End Sub


I face two specific challenges in this project:


1) How do I write the code so that the End User can make the various Nodes of the Tree View List clickable? What I envision is that the End User would select a particular node, click on a button to open a Dialog box to view the document files and then select the file that they want to Node to open. The program would automatically generate the necessary code so that someone who was using the document index could click on the node and open the desired file.

2) After the End User creates their list in Tree View how do they save it so that it is not lost when the application is closed?

Can you give me any insight into these challenges. Thanks again.


Gary

Hi Gary,

You can't really write code that modifies itself in VB. I've done it using assembly code and it's a nightmare anyway so you don't really want to go there.

What you should do is make a data structure that can hold the information so later you can open a program and read the information to figure out what to do about it. In this case, you can probably store the information for each tree view node in the node's Tag property. Each node is represented by a TreeNode object and that object's Tag property can hold anything you like. For example, the Tag property could hold a document name or another object that includes the document's name and any other information that you need.

When the user clicks on a node, you can get the Tag property and pull up the document.

The remaining issue is how do you store all of this. You could try using an XML file. They're hierarchical so they can store the information in a TreeView in a reasonably intuitive way. Or you could save the information in a plain text file and use indentation to show the TreeView's structure.

Here are some examples that may help:

http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_treev...edit_save.html
http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_net_t...ion_pages.html
http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_net_t...t_subtree.html

I hope that helps.

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Rod

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