Re: Treeviews

From: James J. Gavan (jgavandeletethis_at_shaw.ca)
Date: 02/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:26:36 GMT

Richard wrote:
>>It would have helped if Microsoft had produced a '*** and Jane' book
>
> on Windows.
>
> They left it for Petzold to do. Leastways that's how I learned Windows
> 3.0 (after using Townsend for 2.0).
>
Richard,

I know your reference to Petzold - I have an early copy. I should have
been a bit more expansive. I really detest looking through MSDN - just
as I dislike on-line help files - you pick a word get some hits and then
easily get diverted to ancillary topics, and finish up with stuff
totally unrelated to your previous search.

In the case of the MSDN search engine, dependent upon the use of the
word 'Treeview' and any other search words you associate with it, you
get zillions of hits on dozens of articles - and it just never seems to
hit the right one.

As you are well aware our COBOL vendors have gotten into on-line books;
same I'm sure applies to other languages. Take GUI-ing which is, what, a
subset of APIs. Say from MS - a broad outline, then even chapters or
subsidiary books that cover one control in exhaustive detail - it's
already there but they have it spread all over the place in Knowledge
Base articles. I shouldn't have to 'discover' the significance of
changing the size of Treeview Node labels and what impact is has on what
you display - it should be there in bold black and white in a
comprehensive text on Treeviews. Same sort of thing applies to hanging
checkboxes, colouring or droplists on the Treeviews.

I like the book approach. M/F started OO with just on-line help. Now I'm
reasonably comfortable on the topic they now have an on-line book in N/E
V 4.0. ;-)

Still you can always learn more and the book is a pretty good starting
point.

Jimmy