TreeItem.add() | LuaRT free and open source Windows programming framework for Lua

TreeItem:add(itemtext1 [, itemtext2...]) method

Add one or more subitems to the TreeItem.

itemtext1 [, itemtext2...]

One or more strings representing the text of the new subitems.
These items can later be accessed using the TreeItem.subitems property, as TreeItems objects.

Return value

This function returns the last added TreeItem

Example


local ui = require "ui"

local win = ui.Window("TreeItem:add() sample", 320, 220)
local tree = ui.Tree(win, {}, 60, 40, 200, 160)
tree.style = "icons"

local function parse(item, dir)
    if dir ~= nil then
        for entry in each(dir) do
            local newitem = item:add(entry.name)
            newitem:loadicon(entry)
            ui.update()
            if is(entry, sys.Directory) then
                parse(newitem, entry)
            end
        end
    end
end

ui.Button(win, "Choose a directory", 106, 10).onClick = function (self)
    tree:clear()
    parse(tree, ui.dirdialog())
end

win:show()

while win.visible do
    ui.update()
end