>>The FalseTree vcx I downloaded here is actually completely to my liking, and if it was my choice, I would have taken the time to replace the clumsy (and, very much, unnecessarily complicated) code needed to maintain the old treeview.
Can't find that one... can you upload again, would be good to take a look!
>>Some of those are rather important to the functioning of the app - so we're stuck with the last COM version (as later versions are all .net only) which is 32-bit only.
Right. We've the same issue with phdbase that's too good to let go. If the source code could be located, there are community experts who could recompile for x64.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1