Help needed to improve this Folder Chooser

[tsteward]

Open File dialog - When this dialog first opens, folders have no "+" icon to browse into subfolders until you click around. Then they start to appear but only on folders that you click on.

To illustrate .. when this dialog opens, I get the following screen after clicking the "Storage Card" folder:

.. And it’s only after clicking "Documents and Settings" and then AGAIN on "Storage Card" that I can browse the Storage Card:

How can I make this code better. Code originally created by Erel. I assume it doesn't know if there are sub folders until you click on a folder, hence saving processor time.

However I guess the main problem is when the user first selects a folder nothing happens, you need to click a different folder first.

This only seems to happen on the PPC.

'FolderChooser is an example of using the TreeView library.
'The folder nodes are added the first time the user presses on a folder.

Sub Globals
    Dim root
End Sub

Sub App_Start
    If cPPC=True Then root="\" Else root = SubString(AppPath,0,3)
    Form1.show
    tree.new1("form1",5,5,230,200)
    tree.AddImage1(AppPath & "\folder.bmp")
    tree.AddImage1(AppPath & "\openFolder.bmp")
    tree.ImageMode = True
    tree.ImageIndex = 0 'sets all nodes to display the folder icon
    tree.SelectedImageIndex = 1 'sets the selcted node (each time) to display the open folder icon
    node1.new1
    node2.new1
    FindFolders("\","tree")
End Sub
Sub FindFolders (path, node) 'Finds all folders in a specific path
    WaitCursor(True)
    al1.clear
    DirSearch(al1,path)
    c = StrLength(path)
    For I =0 To al1.count - 1
        s=al1.item(i)
        If node = "tree" Then
            tree.AddNewNode(SubString(s,c,StrLength(s)-c))
        Else
            Control(node,Node).AddNewNode (SubString(s,c,StrLength(s)-c))
        End If
    Next
    If node = "tree" Then
        tree.ExpandAll
    Else
        Control(node,Node).Expand
    End If
    WaitCursor(False)
End Sub

Sub tree_AfterSelect
    If tree.action <> "bymouse" Then Return 'If the event was not raised by the user
'When the user presses on a node, search for all folders inside.
    node2.value = tree.selectednode
    node1.value = tree.selectednode
    Dim s
    If node2.count = 0 Then 'If it is not 0 then the it was already opened
        Do Until IsNull(node2.Value) = True 'Find the full path of the current node
            s = node2.text & "\" & s
            node2.value = node2.parent
        Loop
        FindFolders(root & s,"node1")
    End If
End Sub

 

[Mr_Gee]

I was thinking of doing the same thing (and save it as a *.bas)


I think the answer lies in

Sub tree_AfterSelect
    If tree.action <> "bymouse" Then Return 'If the event was not raised by the user
'When the user presses on a node, search for all folders inside.
    node2.value = tree.selectednode
    node1.value = tree.selectednode
    Dim s
    If node2.count = 0 Then 'If it is not 0 then the it was already opened
        Do Until IsNull(node2.Value) = True 'Find the full path of the current node
            s = node2.text & "\" & s
            node2.value = node2.parent
        Loop
        FindFolders(root & s,"node1")
    End If
End Sub

 

[tsteward]

Ok with a little further testing you can on first click select any folder other than "Storage Card" and it works fine.

If first click is on storage card it wont open unless clicking another folder first.

 

[tsteward]

Erel, :sign0085: Perhaps you have an idea how i might overcome this problem. When run the first time you click "Storage Card" nothing happens.

Please

 

[Erel]

The problem is that on the device the first node is "partially" selected automatically and therefore the event is not fired when you press on the first node which is already selected.
You can workaround this problem by adding these lines at the end of Sub FolderChooser.Initialize and manually open the first node:

    tree.SelectedNode = tree.GetNode(0)
    tree.Action = "bymouse"
    tree_AfterSelect

 

[tsteward]

Thank you