Hi Walter

Yes that is what I am doing but in some cases the parent level can have several thousand nodes. Since there is no load on demand feature I am forced to load the entire parent node collection and thus the slow speed.

Thanks
Simon

>Simon,
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>An common approach is to only load the parent nodes at once, and only load the child nodes when parent nodes are expanded.
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>Hope this helps,
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>Walter,
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>>I have been reviewing ActiveX controls for a possible replacement to Microsoft's standard treeview. So far the best one I have seen is ctTree from DBI-Tech. The main reason for my search is the slow speed of loading nodes. It really gets slow after a 1000 nodes. I may have several thousand nodes at anyone time.
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>>Does anyone have any suggestions? I would like it to load nodes quickly and be self contained not requiring multiple files to be installed. I like being able to specify the parent when adding child nodes. Some controls just allow you to set an index value. I also like to find items by typing the first few letters and have the treeview scroll to the nearest match.
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>>Thanks
>>Simon White