adding treeview to visio

[david]

i'm trying to add a treeview to visio and so far with no success...
i found a treeview sample in File->New->BrainStorming->BrainStorming Diagram.
you can drag the window in which the treeview exists to the location of the custom properties.  this is exactly what i want.
if i add a treeview control from Insert->Control, i won't be able to move the treeview to that location.  and in addition, the treeview will be considered as one of visio's shapes which is not what i want.

therefore, i don't want to use that control.  i want to have a treeview just like in Brainstorming example.
but i didn't find any code they used in Brainstroming so i don't know how to do it in my code.

anyone knows how to do it? just a simplest treeview with only a root. that will be a great start for me because now i'm stuck...

hope anyone can help

thanks in advance
David

[Wombat]

I don't think that Visio has any built-in TreeView control. You can add custom windows and put forms and buttons into those windows, but you have to handle the logic yourself--you have to analyze the Visio diagram with your own code.

[david]

but visio does have a built-in treeview control so i don't really understand what you said.  as i said you can find a treeview control in insert->control.  but that control is not comfortable and it has to be between the frame and the properties meaning that the frame must be very small.  that's why i don't want such a control.  what i want is a treeview just like in File->New->BrainStorming->BrainStorming Diagram.  this is a comfortable treeview that is located just where the properties are and therefore the frame can take almost the whole screen.  but i need to know how to build such treeview.  it's very important anybody knows?

thanks in advance
David

[aledlund]

That 'treeview' appears to be an anchor window with a treeview inside of it. An example of coding a solution like that is in both v2003 and v2007 sdk, named wbstreeview.
al

[david]

thanks for your answer.  i didn't know about the anchor window.

but i tried in my code a very simple command and it didn't work well.
the command i wrote was:

    Dim wAddon As Visio.Window
    Set wAddon = ActiveWindow.Windows.Add("Treeview - Window", visWSVisible, _
    visAnchorBarAddon, , , 300, 400)

it created an anchor window in visio but it didn't work well.  i couldn't really do anything with that window.  it seemed like the window was half there and visio just didn't finish to create the window.

is there something wrong in my code?

[david]

anybody knows?

[Paul Herber]

The code you have there seems to be working fine. It creates a window just as you've asked for. It's just a window with a caption of the height and width you specified, and it's transparent. You aren't asking it to do any more than that.