Hi, JG

I don't believe you can do this effectively in a pure VB environment. I
believe that C++ controls do this by drawing the visible portion directly
(owner draw) rather than using the functionality built into the treeview
control.

You will be much better off finding a 3rd party control that provides the
functionality you need.

HTH,

John Eikanger
Microsoft Visual Basic Developer Support

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| Using VB6, trying to use more than one text color on the
| treeview nodes.  Node one is Blue, Node two is Red for
| example.  I know that this can be done using c++, and that
| the VB Treeview is a wrapper around the c++ version.  I
| can get a handle to the TreeView.Node(TV_ITEM) and I
| attempt to SendMessage a message via:
| "Call SendMessage(hItem, TVM_SETTEXTCOLOR, 0, ByVal
| clrref)"
| Anybody know if this can successfully be done?
| Thanks
|

Subclass the control (maybe the parent window instead of the control) and
process NM_CUSTOMDRAW (it's a sub-message of WM_NOTIFY). In NM_CUSTOMDRAW,
lParam is a pointer to a NMTVCUSTOMDRAW-structure. This structure has a
member called nmcd, which is a structure of type NMCUSTOMDRAW.
NMTVCUSTOMDRAW.nmcd.dwDrawStage contains a CDDS_*-value:
If it's CDDS_PREPAINT, return CDRF_NOTIFYITEMDRAW. If it's
CDDS_ITEMPREPAINT, NMTVCUSTOMDRAW.clrText contains the forecolor for the
item specified in NMTVCUSTOMDRAW.nmcd.dwItemSpec and
NMTVCUSTOMDRAW.clrTextBk contains it's BackColor. Change this values,
"CopyMemory" it back to lParam and return CDRF_NEWFONT.

use Node.Backcolor
ex: Node1.Backcolor=&HFFCOCO  (for blue)
     Node2.Backcolor=&HCOCOFF  (for red)
  etc:

:) You never learn out! I didn't know of this. I thought you need
subclassing and customdraw and the hole stuff.

Or just use Node.ForeColor/Node.BackColor. :)

Likewise.

John Eikanger
Microsoft Visual Basic Developer Support

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| :) You never learn out! I didn't know of this. I thought you need
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