FodlerView FolderView: Properties Methods Events Objects: Folder Download Order

Properties Appearance Returns or sets whether or not the control is painted with 3-D effects. AutoUpdate Returns or sets a value determining whether the control is automatically updated when any changes occur within the shell's namespace. BackColor Returns or sets the background color of an object. Background Returns or sets the background style of a FolderView control. BackScroll Returns or sets a value determining whether the background of the control is scrolled with the contents, when the Background property is set to fvgPicture. BoldSelected Returns or sets a value that determines if the text of a selected Item appears Bold. BorderStyle Returns or sets the border style for an object. CanDelete Returns or sets a value that determines if a user can delete folders (or files) in the shell, by selecting an Item in the FolderView control and pressing the DELETE key. CanRefresh Returns or sets a value that determines if FolderView will berefreshed by pressing F5. Checkboxes Returns or sets a value that determines if checkboxes are displayed to the left of the FolderView items. ClickedOnSelect Returns or sets a value that determines if FolderView items will generate a FolderClick event, when they are selected by pressing the keyboard arrows. DragDrop Returns or sets a value that determines if Drag-Drop operations are allowed between FolderView items and other applications e.g. Explorer. Enabled Returns or sets a value that determines whether FolderView control can respond to user-generated events. FirstVisibleFolder Returns a reference to the first visible Folder object in the FolderView control. Folders Returns a collection of Folder objects. A Folder object consists of a Node item, and contains information about a shell object. ForeColor Returns or sets the foreground color used to display text in FolderView control. HasButtons Returns or sets a value that determines whether a plus (+) and minus (-) button is visible to the left side of each parent folder. HasLines Returns or sets a value that determines whether the control will draw lines that link child items to their corresponding parent item. HasLinesAtRoot Returns or sets a value that determines whether FolderView control will draw a line to the left of the Root Folder. HideSelection Returns or sets a value that determines whether the text of a selected Folder appears highlighted when the FolderView control loses the focus. hWndTV Returns the window handle of the FolderView control's child Treeview window. Indent Returns or sets the distance in pixels of the child nodes from parent nodes. LabelEdit Returns or sets a value that determines if a user can edit labels of Folder objects that can be renamed, in the FolderView control. MouseIcon Returns or sets a custom mouse icon. MousePointer Returns or sets a value indicating the type of mouse pointer displayed when the mouse is over a particular part of an object at run time. OverlayIcons Returns or sets a value determining whether shared folders are displayed with their associated network share overlay icons. Picture Returns or sets a graphic to be displayed as background in FolderView control. Root Returns or sets the width, for the specified Frame. SelectedFolder Returns or sets the currently selected Folder object in the FolderView control. ShowFiles Returns or sets a value determining whether files are displayed in the FolderView control. ShowHidden Returns or sets a value determining whether items marked with the Hidden attribute are displayed in the FolderView control. ShowMenu Returns or sets a value determining whether context menu will be displayed for right clicked items. ShowObjects Returns or sets a value determining whether items defined as system Objects are displayed in the FolderView control. Tooltips Returns or sets a value indicating whether tooltips for the items are shown. ValidateSelection Returns or sets a value determining whether items are validated when selected.

Methods AboutBox Displays the About dialog box. GetVisibleCount Returns the number of Folder objects that fit in the internal area of a FolderView control. HitTest Returns a reference to the Folder object located at the specified x and y coordinates. Refresh Forces a complete repaint of the FolderView control. RefreshFolders Forces the FolderView control to re-read the shell's namespace and refresh display of it's Folders. UpdateItem Refreshes a Folder object and its contents.

Events AfterLabelEdit (Cancel as Boolean, NewText as String) BeforeLabelEdit (Cancel as Boolean) Click Collapse (Folder as cFolder) Collapsing (Cancel as Boolean, Folder as cFolder) DoubleClick Expand (Folder as cFolder) Expanding (Cancel as Boolean, Folder as cFolder) FolderClick (Folder as cFolder, Location as efvHitTest) HitTest (Folder as cFolder, Location as efvHitTest) HScroll ItemCompleteDrag (ByVal DropEffect as Long) ItemDragDrop (srcItem as Variant, dstItem as cFolder, DropEffect as Long, Cancel as Integer) ItemDragOver (srcItem as Variant, dstItem as cFolder, ByVal Effects as Long, ByVal Button as Integer, ByVal Shift as Integer, ByVal X as Long, ByVal Y as Long) ItemStartDrag (srcItem as Variant, ByVal DragEffects as Long) KeyDown (KeyCode as Integer, Shift as Integer) KeyPress (KeyAscii as Integer) KeyUp (KeyCode as Integer, Shift as Integer) MouseDown (Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, x As Single, y As Single) MouseMove (Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, x As Single, y As Single) MouseUp (Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, x As Single, y As Single) SelChanged (Folder as cFolder) SelChanging (Cancel as Boolean, Folder as cFolder) Update (EventID as efvUpdate, ValueA as String, ValueB as String) VScroll

Folder Object

Properties Attributes Returns one or more attributes of a Folder object. Checked Returns or sets a value that determines whether a check mark is displayed next to an item. Child Returns a reference to the first child item of a Folder object. Children Returns the number of child Folder objects contained in a Folder object. DisplayName Returns the display name of a Folder object. Expanded Returns or sets a value that determines whether a parent Folder object is currently expanded or collapsed. FirstSibling Returns a reference to the first sibling of a Folder object in a FolderView control. FullPath Returns the full path of a Folder object. hItem Returns the Folder object's treeview item handle. ISFParent Returns a reference to the IShellFolder interface of the Folder object's parent folder. IsFolder Returns a value determining whether the Folder object represents a shell folder. IsHidden Returns a value determining whether the Folder object is displayed using a ghosted icon. IsObject Returns a value determining whether the Folder object is not part of the file system (file, directory, or root directory). IsShared Returns a value determining whether the Folder object represents a shared item. IsShortcut Returns a value determining whether the Folder object represents a shortcut. IsValid Returns a value determining whether the Folder object represents a valid and existing shell folder. ItemID Returns the pointer to the Folder object's item ID relative to it's parent shell folder. LargeIcon Returns a Folder object's large icon displayed in the FolderView control. LastSibling Returns a reference to the last sibling of a Folder object in a FolderView control. NextSibling Returns a reference to the next sibling Folder of a FolderView control's Folder object. Parent Returns a reference to the parent folder of a Folder object. PIDL Returns the pointer to a Folder object's fully qualified item ID list (pidl), relative to the desktop folder. PrevSibling Returns a reference to the previous sibling of a Folder object. Selected Returns or sets the selection status of an item in a FolderView control. Siblings Returns the number of Folder objects in a hierarchy level. SmallIcon Returns a Folder object's small icon displayed in the FolderView control.

Methods EnsureVisible Ensures a Folder object is visible, scrolling the treeview or expanding the item's parent folders if necessary.