TreeView Node Expansion

Hello

I'm not handy in C/C++, otherwise I'd consider volunteering to work on this myself. Maybe someone else can have a look? It's possible the TreeView code is too deeply embedded to make it easy to pull this off, but I'll propose it in any case.

I've done this in the past with my FoxPro code and it's worked pretty well.

When Explorer View's TreeView loads a node, the node's expand event can be modified slightly to include a load all of its grandchildren. This way a node's expansion control (the plus/minus symbol) will always immediately indicate whether or not it has children, even before we expand it.

Currently the model is that we have to select a node in order to determine whether it has children. This makes navigating the heirarchy a guessing game, which can become frustrating at times.

Some example psuedo code:

Would such a change be possible to implement?

Thanks,
Jeff Bowman
www.intexx.com

I know. But loading child-nodes from remote server is expensive. If you have slow line, it can take minutes.

Ah, I smell a user option coming on ;-)

TreeView loading behavior:

• Load grandchildren on node expand
  
• Load children and expand node on selection
  

And/Or, even better yet:

TreeView node expansion:

• Synchronous loading
  
• Asynchronous loading
  

This way the user can choose for himself, instead of us choosing for him :-)

Thanks,
Jeff Bowman
www.intexx.com

Asynchronous loading is definitely the solution. Though it is too much work, providing the feature is not that demanded. Will see if more people asks for that.

It sure is lonely here at the top, isn't it? :)