How to find tree view item by string ?

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Hello everyone!

I would like to start by saying thanks to everyone who takes some time to view this thread and try to help.

I have a tree view control created in dialog via resource editor.

I have to find a node which text label is the same as the string variable and select it.

A small example:
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TREE VIEW CONTROL WITH NODES

+ First node
|
|__ Second node
.
.
.

char[10] test = "Second node"; // char variable

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Since in the above example test variable and second node have the same text I should select programmatically the second node.

That is my problem, so my question is:

How do I do that ?

I work in MS Visual Studio Express 2008, on Windows XP, in C++, using pure WIN32 API.

That would be all, again I thank everyone who tries to help.Thank you very very much!

Posted 21-Jul-13 6:20am

MyOldAccount

Updated 22-Jul-13 4:29am

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Joezer BH 22-Jul-13 11:05am

What seems to be the problem then?
Have you tried anything?

MyOldAccount 22-Jul-13 11:08am

I have successfully found a matching node, now I just need to select it.
Any suggestions ?

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**Joezer BH** · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-22T05:15:00

Solution 2

See CP's nice article on the subject, it's an oldie but it looks ok:
Using TreeControl (TreeView) under Win32 API[^]

Hope it helps!

Cheers,
Edo

Posted 22-Jul-13 5:15am

Joezer BH

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MyOldAccount 22-Jul-13 11:32am

I know about that article, I have found it myself as well!

MyOldAccount · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-22T05:35:00

There is no " magic pill ", I had to traverse through the nodes and compare the strings, to find a matching node.

Luckily, the treeview's number of nodes and child nodes is small.

As for selection of a matching node, I have just used TreeView_SelectItem( ... ) macro.

[enhzflep EDIT]: Solution here: find treeview node by which label equals string variable[^]