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Make treeview node bold

I have a treeview that i've defined in my Master page. I build the treeview dynamically in the whatever.aspx.

Tree looks like this:
>node1
>node2
>node3
>subnode3_1
>subnode3_2

I want to the fonts for the main nodes to be bold. I tried these :
1. Font-Bold="true" makes nodes and SUBnodes bold
2. RootNodeStyle-Font-Bold="true" : makes "node3" bold BUT doesnt makde node1 and node2 bold. It should since they're main nodes too..no?

3. NodeStyle-Font-Bold="true" : i think it made all of the nodes and subnodes bold

Tried a combination and didnt work. Wanted to do it dynamically in the code behind but i didnt see "attributes" for the treenode:
treeNode = New TreeNode(....)

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Wayne Taylor (webtubbs)

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Camillia

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let me try.

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Éric Moreau

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Camillia

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hmmm...this isnt working...

1. I imported : Imorts System.Drawing
2. I cant do what Jaime has because I cant have "New Font (Treeview1.Font,Font.Bold)". New Font cant take "treeview1.Font" as one of the parameters. It has to be a font family name.

I looked at emoreau's example and tried webTubbs's example as well but I dont see .BackColor or .NodeFont.

I tried this : http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_net_font_samples.html
and created a new font: Dim new_font As New Font("Something", 8, FontStyle.Bold)

**But now what..I have the treeNode like this:
treeNode = New TreeNode("whatever")
But I dont know how to assign the font to the treeNode. I did " treenode. " but I dont see a Font or "Something" in intellisense...

Jaime Olivares

>>I looked at emoreau's example and tried webTubbs's example as well but I dont see .BackColor or .NodeFont.
Are you working with Compact Framework / Windows Mobile ?

Camillia

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no, this is asp.net/VB.net (not my forms C# app).

This is what I have so far...

 Dim treeNode As TreeNode
        Dim treeSubNode As TreeNode
        Dim treeSubNode2 As TreeNode
        Dim da As DataRow
        Dim daNode As DataRow
        '  Dim p As FontStyle = FontStyle.Bold
        Dim new_font As New Font("Something", 8, FontStyle.Bold)
 
 
        If userTabsTable.Rows.Count > 0 Then 'if user has tabs setup in taborder table.
 
 
            'build the nodes. Localize node text
            For Each da In userTabsTable.Rows
                treeNode = New TreeNode(...)
  ....

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Camillia

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And I have VS2005, Professional Edtion.

This works Master.tvTabsms.Font.Bold = True
But that makes ALL the nodes, even the subnodes bold/

Camillia

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Now I see it:
With (Master.mytreeview)
End With

I was doing : with (master.mytreeview.nodes)
End With

Let me play around with it and see how I can use that with my "treeNode" variable

Camillia

ASKER

No, I cant get this to work. Even tried following Eric's example but I get "expression does not produce a value".

This cant be that hard!


        With Master.tvTabsms
 
            If userTabsTable.Rows.Count > 0 Then 'if user has tabs setup in taborder table.
 
 
                'build the nodes. Localize node text
                For Each da In userTabsTable.Rows
                    treeNode = New TreeNode(CStr(HttpContext.GetLocalResourceObject("/SideMenuTree", "tv" & da(1).ToString.Trim & ".Text")))
 
                    Dim nodeParent As TreeNode
                    nodeParent = Master.tvTabsms.Nodes.Add(New TreeNode(CStr(HttpContext.GetLocalResourceObject("/SideMenuTree", "tv" & da(1).ToString.Trim & ".Text"))))  '**** get an error here
 
 
 
 
                    If da(2).ToString.Trim = "X" OrElse da(2).ToString.Trim = "XX" Then 'build the subnode
                        For Each daNode In userTabsSubNodeTable.Rows
                            treeSubNode = New TreeNode(daNode(0).ToString)
                            treeNode.ChildNodes.Add(treeSubNode)
                            If da(2).ToString.Trim = "XX" And daNode(1).ToString.Trim <> String.Empty Then
                                treeSubNode2 = New TreeNode(daNode(1).ToString)
                                treeSubNode.ChildNodes.Add(treeSubNode2)
                            End If
 
 
 
                        Next
                        Master.tvTabsms.Nodes.Add(treeNode)
                    Else
 
                        ' treeNode = New TreeNode(CStr(HttpContext.GetLocalResourceObject("/SideMenuTree", "tv" & da(1).ToString.Trim & ".Text")))
                        Master.tvTabsms.Nodes.Add(treeNode)
                    End If
 
 
                Next
 
            End If
        End With

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Camillia

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tried this as well but i dont see a ".NodeFont"

http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=44516

Camillia

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If I do this, I can get the main nodes to change color to Red:
treeNode = New TreeNode("<font color = red>" & CStr(HttpContext.GetLocalResourceObject("/SideMenuTree", "tv" & da(1).ToString.Trim & ".Text")) & "</font>")

I found it here: http://forums.devx.com/showthread.php?t=153246

Now need to make it bold

Camillia

ASKER

Sorry everyone, I made it work like this:

treeNode = New TreeNode("<b>" & CStr(HttpContext.GetLocalResourceObject("/SideMenuTree", "tv" & da(1).ToString.Trim & ".Text")) & "</b>")

Thanks