Codejock Developer Community : Tree control disables when Windows version changes http://forum.codejock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 13 May 2026 04:36:13 +0000 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:01:58 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 forum.codejock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=22070 <![CDATA[Codejock Developer Community]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_images/codejock-logo.gif http://forum.codejock.com/ <![CDATA[Tree control disables when Windows version changes : I am not the developer of Ultra...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=22070&PID=72594&title=tree-control-disables-when-windows-version-changes#72594 Author: KQS
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Posted: 30 June 2014 at 3:01pm

I am not the developer of Ultra Recall (which uses the tree control) but just a user, so don't have access to the source code. UR does alllow you to change the style of the menus/controls, so I guess it must have VisualStyle enabled (if that's what it means)

I had a thought that I could use a Window Spy type program to inspect the the tree control properties/styles and modify it if it was disabled.

I came across a CodeProject article where someone had written an enhanced version of the Microsoft Spy++ tool, zero Dump, which allowed property/style modification as well as inspection:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/9549/Capturing-Window-Controls-and-Modifying-their-prop

When I used zero Dump to inspect the tree control, it had the WS_DISABLED style set, so I unset this style and the tree control was enabled and seemed to work fine.

The author of Ultra Recall says it's the tree control that disabled itself, which makes me wonder why, particularly as it seems to work fine on Windows 8.1.1 ?
]]> Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:01:58 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=22070&PID=72594&title=tree-control-disables-when-windows-version-changes#72594 <![CDATA[Tree control disables when Windows version changes : Do you haveVisualStyle enabled?...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=22070&PID=71960&title=tree-control-disables-when-windows-version-changes#71960 Author: Willowmaster
Subject: 22070
Posted: 27 November 2013 at 3:56am

Do you have VisualStyle enabled? Maybe the visual styles are not compatible with Windows 8 for older CodeJock versions.
 
I tried the Suite Controls Sample, but it doesn't show the problem you are talking about. Did you change the foreground color to a system color?
]]> Wed, 27 Nov 2013 03:56:02 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=22070&PID=71960&title=tree-control-disables-when-windows-version-changes#71960 <![CDATA[Tree control disables when Windows version changes : Just to clarify, the latest tree...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=22070&PID=71955&title=tree-control-disables-when-windows-version-changes#71955 Author: KQS
Subject: 22070
Posted: 25 November 2013 at 6:32pm

Just to clarify, the latest tree control works fine on Windows 8/8.1, but older versions have the problem shown in the screenshot.

The thing that annoys me is that it seems like the tree control (and maybe others) are coded to stop working one some newer Windows versions, to get people to upgrade to latest version of the Toolkit.
]]> Mon, 25 Nov 2013 18:32:27 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=22070&PID=71955&title=tree-control-disables-when-windows-version-changes#71955 <![CDATA[Tree control disables when Windows version changes : When Windows 7 was released, the...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=22070&PID=71950&title=tree-control-disables-when-windows-version-changes#71950 Author: KQS
Subject: 22070
Posted: 25 November 2013 at 11:24am

When Windows 7 was released, the tree control stopped working, and the same happened when Windows 8 was released. It's as if the tree control is hard-coded to not work when Windows updates. Seems like an underhand way to get people to update to newer versions of the toolkit.

For example, on Windows 8 the tree items are visible but greyed out...]]> Mon, 25 Nov 2013 11:24:38 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=22070&PID=71950&title=tree-control-disables-when-windows-version-changes#71950