TreeView.DrawMode Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Windows.Forms

Assembly:

System.Windows.Forms.dll

Source:

TreeView.cs

Gets or sets the mode in which the control is drawn.

C#

public System.Windows.Forms.TreeViewDrawMode DrawMode { get; set; }

Property Value

TreeViewDrawMode

One of the TreeViewDrawMode values. The default is Normal.

Exceptions

InvalidEnumArgumentException

The property value is not a valid TreeViewDrawMode value.

Examples

The following code example demonstrates how to customize a TreeView control using owner drawing. The TreeView control in the example displays optional node tags alongside the standard node labels. Node tags are specified by using the TreeNode.Tag property. The TreeView control also uses custom colors, which include a custom highlight color.

You can customize most of the TreeView colors by setting color properties, but the selection highlight color is not available as a property. Additionally, the default selection highlight rectangle extends only around a node label. Owner drawing must be used to draw the node tags and to draw a customized highlight rectangle large enough to include a node tag.

For the complete example, see the DrawNode reference topic.

C#

public TreeViewOwnerDraw()
{
    // Create and initialize the TreeView control.
    myTreeView = new TreeView();
    myTreeView.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
    myTreeView.BackColor = Color.Tan;
    myTreeView.CheckBoxes = true;

    // Add nodes to the TreeView control.
    TreeNode node;
    for (int x = 1; x < 4; ++x)
    {
        // Add a root node to the TreeView control.
        node = myTreeView.Nodes.Add(String.Format("Task {0}", x));
        for (int y = 1; y < 4; ++y)
        {
            // Add a child node to the root node.
            node.Nodes.Add(String.Format("Subtask {0}", y));
        }
    }
    myTreeView.ExpandAll();

    // Add tags containing alert messages to a few nodes 
    // and set the node background color to highlight them.
    myTreeView.Nodes[1].Nodes[0].Tag = "urgent!";
    myTreeView.Nodes[1].Nodes[0].BackColor = Color.Yellow;
    myTreeView.SelectedNode = myTreeView.Nodes[1].Nodes[0];
    myTreeView.Nodes[2].Nodes[1].Tag = "urgent!";
    myTreeView.Nodes[2].Nodes[1].BackColor = Color.Yellow;

    // Configure the TreeView control for owner-draw and add
    // a handler for the DrawNode event.
    myTreeView.DrawMode = TreeViewDrawMode.OwnerDrawText;
    myTreeView.DrawNode += 
        new DrawTreeNodeEventHandler(myTreeView_DrawNode);

    // Add a handler for the MouseDown event so that a node can be 
    // selected by clicking the tag text as well as the node text.
    myTreeView.MouseDown += new MouseEventHandler(myTreeView_MouseDown);

    // Initialize the form and add the TreeView control to it.
    this.ClientSize = new Size(292, 273);
    this.Controls.Add(myTreeView);
}

Remarks

The nodes of a TreeView are typically drawn by the operating system. The DrawMode property lets you customize the appearance of the nodes. To do this, set DrawMode to TreeViewDrawMode.OwnerDrawAll or TreeViewDrawMode.OwnerDrawText and provide a handler for the DrawNode event. This is called owner drawing.

Applies to

See also

• TreeViewDrawMode
• DrawNode