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Multi-select Treeview control v2.0

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Multi-select Treeview control v2.0

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Introduction

This is a multi select TreeView Control for the .NET Framework. It is possible to select TreeNodes in multiple ways with or without constraints.

Details

The MWTreeView has a few ways of mouse-selecting the TreeNodes by painting anything from a rubberband to very graphical representations. There is even the possibility, using GDI+, to customize the mouse-selection. It is also possible to have TreeNodes of various colors within the same MWTreeView with multi-selection still working. The MWTreeView has a massive amount of configurable settings so that anyone should be able to tailor it to their needs.

Note that when selecting TreeNodes in code, the SelectNode (DeselectNode also exists) method should be used. Note that when changing the colors of a TreeNode, the ChangeColors method should be used. Do not just change the colors of a TreeNode.

Note that in order to iterate through the selected TreeNodes, the following method has to be used (selected TreeNodes are stored in a Hashtable):

C#
foreach(MWTreeNodeWrapper mwtnw in mwtvMWTreeView.SelNodes.Values)
{
   MessageBox.Show("The " + mwtnw.Node.Text + 
    " TreeNode is selected.");
}

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QuestionSorting selected nodes Pin
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QuestionGreat code, license question? Pin
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GeneralOdd behaviour on deselect [modified] Pin
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GeneralNodes.Clear Doesn't Clear SelNodes Pin
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GeneralDeep Logic bug about selecting node(s) Pin
Le_MuLoT13-Sep-05 4:17
Le_MuLoT13-Sep-05 4:17 
Hi,
before everything I would like to say, great job and thank you givin' us this great TreeView "update". Big Grin | :-D

So well... ok. How to explain it.
As an example, when you have to remove node(s) and you forget to call the ClearSelNodes() method you've got really bad news. In fact, 'cause in .Net you cannot have dangling pointers, after calling the Clear() method of the TreeNodeCollection, the ArrayList (or hashing table in our case) that contain the selected nodes will contain nodes that now... got no treeview associated. This will givin' you "null reference" exception at Deselect() method in MWTreeNodeWrapper class, the next time you try to select a node. WTF | :WTF:

<br />
public static void Deselect(MWTreeNodeWrapper mwtnw)<br />
{<br />
...<br />
<br />
//The TreeView instance is now set to null<br />
if(mwtnw.Node.TreeView.Enabled)<br />
<br />
...<br />


The way I think we can fixe this "logical bug", is by overriding the Clear() method of the TreeNodeCollection and adding the ClearSelNodes() method call. The problem is, we cannot implemente a "new" TreeNodeCollection, I tried before and failed for some out of reach reasons caused by the Microsoft product itself. Dead | X|

The other way we can fixe it, is to manually check for "orphan" nodes (nodes without a TreeView) at strategicals locations in the MWTreeView control itself. "Patching" the TreeView is not a great way solving the problem and I don't wanna do this for the simple reason that if you release a new version of the TreeView, I'll be stuck to done the job each time. Cry | :((

Sorry for my bad english, I hope my explanations was pretty easy to understand. Sigh | :sigh:

So... what's your opinion about this "bug" ? Confused | :confused:
AnswerRe: Deep Logic bug about selecting node(s) Pin
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