ItemID - Finding Nodes

ItemID - Finding Nodes

A common problem encountered when using TreeViews is finding a node.... Say you want to keep a list of the last few nodes the user clicked, how would you do that?

Actually its relatively simple. Each node is uniquely identified by a ItemID property. The ItemID property is declared as a HTreeItem. HTreeItem is defined in CommCtrl.pas you must include this unit if you want to use HTreeItem.

There are two steps here.

Step 1: Get the Node's ItemID

 

   iValue := integer(Node.ItemID);

Here I get the node's ItemID and save it as an integer (type-cast is needed).
Step 2: Get a Node from the ItemID

 

   Node := TreeView.Items.GetNode(  HTreeItem(iValue)  );

Again a type-cast is necessary, this time from an integer to a HTreeItem.