Need Help With Systreeview321 Navigation

[Guest Killed-a-Lot]

Hello. I did a search on all forums for the last year and looked around for quite awhile for an answer to my problem. No luck so far.

I am trying to navigate a SysTreeView321 control (like the one you get in the left pane of windows explorer when you right click on My Computer and hit the "Explore" menu option). I need to be able to navigate the hierarchy to a certain directory when I open the dialog box containing the control. Unlike Windows Explorer, the dialog box and control do not offer me the ability to type in a directory path into a edit box. The only way I have seen to navigate it so far is by using arrow keys to move up and down, as well as expand and collapse the directory structures.

Is there another way to do what I am trying to do? Using Send() over and over to do this seems rather messy, so what am i missing?

Thanks.

Killed-a-Lot

[trids]

I'm not aware of any functions that interface with the treeview and listview controls yet, but I believe they are in the pipeline.

In the meantime .. I have successfully used Send() and the intrinsic features of these two controls to "navigate by keyboard" as it were. If you know the node that you want to receive focus, you can type (ie Send())the first few characters of the node .. you're not limited to just {up} and {down}. This works for both listview and treeview.

BTW .. if you press arrow-right on a node, it opens the node. which means you can navigate the hierarchy underneath.

HTH

[CyberSlug]

Well, you can use ControlSend. It cannot send Alt keys, but it can send keys to hidden and non-active windows:

ControlSend("titleOfWindow","","SysTreeView321","keystrokes")

Useful tips for others' benefit:

• Send("{NUMPADMULT}") will exapand ALL subfolders recursively--but this can take a few minutes on a a folder such as C:\
• Send a lowercase letter of the alphabet to jump to the next folder/file beginning with that letter.

If this doesn't help, then bug Larry; he's responsible for Control-manipulation functions

EDIT: Dang--too slow again. I think I'll call it a night *yawn*

Edited February 11, 2004 by CyberSlug

[Guest Killed-a-Lot]

Thanks for the tips everyone. I have not played with ControlSend() yet. I am writing the script right now, so I will play with it. I will post back sometime tomorrow to let you know if I got it working.

Thanks Again,

Killed-a-Lot

[Somerset]

well i know this stupid trick works in regedit, but i dunno if it will work for you in a tree viewing program. so here is the stupid trick.

send("the exact name of the first branch goes here {enter} or {space} or {RIGHT} cannot remmber")

etc. until you get to the folder you want.

example

send("My Computer{RIGHT}")

you'll get the idea.

Edited February 11, 2004 by beerman

[Guest Killed-a-Lot]

beerman,

That's basically what I ended up doing. Unfortunately the program saves the last state of the tree view control when it closes. The next time I open it up I need to get it to a baseline (all closed) so I can then navigate properly through it.

Does anyone know a simple way to collapse all entries? The opposite of what CyberSlug suggested with Send("{NUMPADMULT}")?

Thanks.

Killed-a-Lot

[Somerset]

yeah reverse order them, the use the left arrow key.

the home key should take you back to the top after reverse ordering them.

Edited February 11, 2004 by beerman

[ryanm]

Does anyone know a simple way to collapse all entries?

Collapsing the top level then refreshing seems to close all the subfolders so you can start over. This works on Win2K/XP, pretty sure it works on 9x/ME.

Send("My Computer{NUMPADSUB}{F5}{NUMPADADD}")

Left and Right also work, but if a folder's already closed you get sent to that folder's parent...

Send("My Computer{LEFT}{F5}{RIGHT}")

Edited February 17, 2004 by ryanm