loadChildren( )

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Loads and instantiates TreeItems from a text file.

Syntax

<oRef>.loadChildren(<filename expC>)

<oRef>

The TreeView object to contain the TreeItems.

<filename expC>

The name of the text file containing the TreeItem objects and properties.

Property of

TreeView

Description

Use loadChildren( ) to load TreeItem object definitions and properties from a text file, and instantiate them as the children of an existing TreeView object. The file containing the TreeItems may have been created in a text editor, or by any TreeView object’s streamChildren( ) method.

loadChildren( ) releases all existing child TreeItems in the TreeView and replaces them with the TreeItems in the text file.