hi Allen,
thanks for the reply.
it is attached to the tree, but i'm accessing the nodes recursively through
their parent TreeNode, so maybe the location context is not following on
from there.
i think i'm going to give up on the idea.  i found out that it's a bad idea
to use CreateGraphics to do custom painting, because the Paint event is
going to override it.  so i'll just have to stick with an imagelist
containing every combination of images, assigning them in a cumbersome
if/else statement.

thanks anyway
tim

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blog: http://tim.mackey.ie

hi Jeffrey,
thanks for the reply.  it seems to be to do with the way i build my
treenodes.  i start with a root node, and add all the children to that.  it
seems that unless the child nodes are added directly to the tree, they do
not get any bounds.

you can reproduce this with the following code:

using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data;
using System.Web;

namespace Test
{
public class Form1 : System.Windows.Forms.Form
{
 private System.Windows.Forms.TreeView treeView1;
 private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox textBox1;
 private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components = null;

 public Form1()
 {
  InitializeComponent();
 }

 protected override void Dispose( bool disposing )
 {
  if( disposing )
  {
   if (components != null)
   {
    components.Dispose();
   }
  }
  base.Dispose( disposing );
 }

 #region Windows Form Designer generated code

 private void InitializeComponent()
 {
  this.treeView1 = new System.Windows.Forms.TreeView();
  this.textBox1 = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
  this.SuspendLayout();
  //
  // treeView1
  //
  this.treeView1.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Left;
  this.treeView1.ImageIndex = -1;
  this.treeView1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0);
  this.treeView1.Name = "treeView1";
  this.treeView1.SelectedImageIndex = -1;
  this.treeView1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(232, 396);
  this.treeView1.TabIndex = 0;
  //
  // textBox1
  //
  this.textBox1.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill;
  this.textBox1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(232, 0);
  this.textBox1.Multiline = true;
  this.textBox1.Name = "textBox1";
  this.textBox1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(304, 396);
  this.textBox1.TabIndex = 1;
  this.textBox1.Text = "";
  //
  // Form1
  //
  this.AutoScaleBaseSize = new System.Drawing.Size(5, 13);
  this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(536, 396);
  this.Controls.Add(this.textBox1);
  this.Controls.Add(this.treeView1);
  this.Name = "Form1";
  this.Text = "Form1";
  this.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.Form1_Load);
  this.ResumeLayout(false);

 }
 #endregion

 [STAThread]
 static void Main()
 {
  Application.Run(new Form1());
 }

 private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
 {
  TreeNode root = new TreeNode("Node1");
  root.Nodes.Add(new TreeNode("Node2"));
  root.Nodes.Add(new TreeNode("Node3"));
  root.Nodes.Add(new TreeNode("Node4"));

  this.treeView1.Nodes.Add(root);

  foreach(TreeNode node in root.Nodes)
   this.textBox1.Text += node.Bounds.ToString() + "\r\n";
 }
}
}

i wouldn't have thought there was anything weird about my approach above
(which is simplified).  recursion is used a lot with treeviews.

do i get a prize for finding a bug in the treeview?  ;)

tim

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blog: http://tim.mackey.ie

p.s. note that if i reference the child nodes through the
treeview.Nodes collection instead of the local 'root' variable, the
result is the same,  presumably because it is the same object.

foreach(TreeNode node in this.treeView1.Nodes[0].Nodes)
    this.textBox1.Text += node.Bounds.ToString() + "\r\n";
// still shows 0,0,0,0 for each child node

tim