Angel, the display works perfectly, however - there is a glitch in the sorting of the dates. When the data comes in it is displayed as:

10/1/2009
8/5/2009
8/3/2009
8/1/2009
7/1/2009

If I press the header above the dates for sorting, The dates now look like:

10/1/2009
7/1/2009
8/1/2009
8/5/2009
8/3/2009

Where the first date is out of order, but the others are in correct order... wierd? Ideas?

Sheesh, I feel so stupid!  Ok Angel, now that I have the list populated, looks great (minus the sorting order thing)... I can not find any documentation on methods of retrieving values. If someone double clicks or highlights an item, how do I know what line they selected, and how do I get a value out of one of the columns? (say I need the data in column3 of the selected line)...?  Sorry but if I could find docs this probbably wouldnt be a big problem (I was using the windows listview but I want to utilize your controls where possible), but I cant read by class porperties etc to find methods. (I did check the demo, but nothing shows how to obtain the data when you select it...)

Thanks once again!

This is still a problem (sorting)... any ideas?

Hi Gary,

Sorry for the delayed responce.

Regarding sorting, the problem is that now the dates are presented as strings and the are sorted as strings.

To fix this you should create a new class that represent short formatted date item and also you should made small modifications of the class that you create earlier.

The new class should looks like this:

Public Class NTreeListNodeShortDateTimeSubItem

    Inherits NTreeListNodeDateTimeSubItem

    Public Overrides ReadOnly Property DisplayValue() As String

        Get

            Return CDate(Value).ToShortDateString()

        End Get

    End Property

End Class

and now MyNTreeListTableData should looks like the following:

Public Class MyNTreeListTableData

    Inherits NTreeListTableData

    Protected Overrides Function CreateSubItem(ByVal value As Object) As Nevron.UI.WinForm.Controls.NTreeListNodeSubItem

        Dim item As NTreeListNodeSubItem = MyBase.CreateSubItem(value)

        If value.GetType() Is GetType(DateTime) Then

            item = New NTreeListNodeShortDateTimeSubItem()

            TryCast(item, NTreeListNodeShortDateTimeSubItem).Value = value

        End If

        Return item

    End Function

End Class

These changes should fix the sorting problem.

Sorry that I didn't foresee it at the beginning.

Regarding selection retrieving you should attach to ItemNotify event and check for the appropriate notify code.

Again, here is an example:

Private Sub NTreeList1_ItemNotify(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal data As NLightUIItemNotifyData) Handles NTreeList1.ItemNotify

    If data.NotifyCode = NTreeList.ItemLabelDoubleClickNotifyCode Then

        MessageBox.Show(TryCast(data.Sender, NTreeListNode).SubItems(0).RawData)

    End If

End Sub

The drawback here is that you cannot determine on which column is clicked, so you have to know which columns data you want to retreve. At the example above this should be the first one (SubItems(0)).

I hope this will helps.

Along with the documentation you can check the example application provided in the instalation that shows how to use the most common functionality of our UI controls.

Regards,

Angel.

Thanks Angel,

It works as designed and I appreciate your help! I'm learning and it is getting easier to understand the classes/controls. Appreciate the help!

Gary