TreeView - a simply thing (but not for me)

[dazza]

How do I get the path/text of each item in a treeview

GetTree? GetNext?

I have blundered about finding no examples that match :¬(

Please put me out of my misery

$treeview = ControlGetHandle("window name", "", "[CLASS:SysTreeView32]")

[PsaltyDS]

How do I get the path/text of each item in a treeview

GetTree? GetNext?

I have blundered about finding no examples that match :¬(

Please put me out of my misery $treeview = ControlGetHandle("window name", "", "[CLASS:SysTreeView32]")

Look in the help file at ControlTreeView(), and the many _GuiCtrlTreeView_* functions of the GuiTreeView.au3 UDF.

[dazza]

Look in the help file at ControlTreeView(), and the many _GuiCtrlTreeView_* functions of the GuiTreeView.au3 UDF.

I did for an hour, and I couldn't fine one example of looping through a treeview outputting the item path/name

[PsaltyDS]

I did for an hour, and I couldn't fine one example of looping through a treeview outputting the item path/name

It's similar to recursive search of directory trees. You have to code them. List the parent items, check each one for child items, recurse through the children looking for more child items, etc.

I'm sympathetic about the difficulty of the TreeView32 API. It is a pain in the butt to work with in the _GuiCtrlTreeView_* functions because what seem like obvious functions appear to be missing. And there is an awkward switch between referring to items by handles or indexes, depending on the function. It's not an object interface so nothing can return a collection of child items or an array of item handles, for instance. AutoIt didn't do that. Microsoft's DLLs did, and AutoIt has to use them. (If you need your mind bent for the day, crack open GuiTreeView.au3 in SciTE and read the MSDN articles on some of those DLL calls.)

When I get some free time, I could code a short demo, but it has probably been done in the past. Don't give up on the forum search function.

[dazza]

It's similar to recursive search of directory trees. You have to code them. List the parent items, check each one for child items, recurse through the children looking for more child items, etc.

I'm sympathetic about the difficulty of the TreeView32 API. It is a pain in the butt to work with in the _GuiCtrlTreeView_* functions because what seem like obvious functions appear to be missing. And there is an awkward switch between referring to items by handles or indexes, depending on the function. It's not an object interface so nothing can return a collection of child items or an array of item handles, for instance. AutoIt didn't do that. Microsoft's DLLs did, and AutoIt has to use them. (If you need your mind bent for the day, crack open GuiTreeView.au3 in SciTE and read the MSDN articles on some of those DLL calls.)

When I get some free time, I could code a short demo, but it has probably been done in the past. Don't give up on the forum search function.

This works (after much experimentation)

$treeview = ControlGetHandle("Win Name", "", "[CLASS:SysTreeView32]")
$item = _GUICtrlTreeView_GetSelection($treeview)
$item = _GUICtrlTreeView_GetNext($treeview, $item)
$finish = _GUICtrlTreeView_GetCount($treeview)

While 1
      $count = $count + 1
      $text = _GUICtrlTreeView_GetTree($treeview, $item)  ;$text holds parent|item name
      If $count = $finish then ExitLoop
    
      $item = _GUICtrlTreeView_GetNext($treeview, $item)
    
WEnd

Edited May 29, 2009 by dazza