>>>My gues would be, that you've to chose between changing treeview background and using TreeLines. Otherwise would they removed TreeLines in that mskb article in the first place?
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>>My understanding of the Article led me to believe that they just toggled the Treelines off then on (there are 2 calls one after the other, one with the TreeLines subtracted then next as the style originally was).
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>>I suspect that my problem may lie in the incorrect translation of the constants do you know what they should be or where I can look then up?
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>>* In VB
>>Private Const GWL_STYLE = -16&
>>Private Const TVM_SETBKCOLOR = 4381&
>>Private Const TVS_HASLINES = 2&
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>>* In Fox
>>#define GWL_STYLE -16
>>#define TVM_SETBKCOLOR 4381
>>#define TVS_HASLINES 2
>>

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>>Thank for your help
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>PMFJI, but VB constants are simply numerics. See above.
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>The only time you need the hex notation is if you see something like the following in VB:
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>Private Const MyConstant = &HFF
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>The &H signifies the number is in hex format. You also don't use the = in VFP constant definitions.
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>HTH.

Thanks for confirming that Larry