TreeView class

Tree views are controls that display hierarchical information as a tree of nodes (or treeview items) that can be expanded and collapsed.

Actions

The following actions are possible with tree views:

Using tree views

The function used to create a node (a node is a treeview item) is wb_create_items(). This function can create one or more nodes at once by passing an array of arrays as the items parameter. Each element of the second-level array describes the node to be inserted.

The second-level arrays can be described as follows:

wb_create_items() will return an array of unique integer identifiers. Each identifier refers to a node. These identifiers are actually treeview item handles.

NOTE: The identifier used to reference the node is completely independent of the value parameter.

To retrieve a node text, use wb_get_text() and set the item parameter to the node identifier. Leave it blank to retrieve the text of the currently selected node.

The possible values for insertiontype are:

If insertiontype is zero, To insert a node you must specify its insertion level. The minimum level is zero and the maximum is the level of the node with the higher level plus one. The level of an empty list is -1. If you try to assign a invalid level to a node, the level will be automatically lowered to the higher possible level. For example, If the treeview is empty and you try to insert a node with level 1, the item level will be automatically set to 0. Negative levels are always converted  to 0.

You may assign up to two images, imageindex and selectedimageindex, to a treeview item, respectively for the unselected and selected states. If image indices of a given item are not assigned or set to a negative number, default images will be automatically assigned for that node. In addition to showing the selected state of the node, the default images also indicate whether the node has sub-items (image indices 0 and 1) or not (image indices 4 and 5). To use an empty image, use a value that is higher than the last available image on the bitmap.

Example

The code snippet below shows some ways of populating a treeview with items.

// Create several items in a treeview by specifying the insertion level

$items = wb_create_items($tree, array(
    array("Root0",  2001),            // Default insertion level is 0
    array("Child1", 2002, 1),
    array("Child2", 2003, 1),
    array("Root1",  2004),
    array("Child3", 2005, 2),
    array("Child4", 2006, 2),
    array("Child5", 2007, 3),
    array("Child6", 2008, 4),
    array("Root2",  2009),
    array("Root3",  2010),
}

// Create items with parent-child-sibling relationships

$node1 = wb_create_items($tree, array(array("Root4",  3001, 0,      0, 1, 0)));  // At root
$node2 = wb_create_items($tree, array(array("Child7", 3002, $node1, 4, 5, 2)));  // As a child of $node1
$node3 = wb_create_items($tree, array(array("Child8", 3003, $node2, 4, 5, 1))); // As a sibling of $node2

See also

wb_create_control
wb_create_items

Control classes