Treeview selection

[Jake]

Hey guys,

I have a problem I'm trying to solve. I'm trying to programmatically select an item in the tree view. I'm doing something like this:

public void selectCurrentNodeByRelease(Release sentObject)

        {

            foreach (RadTreeViewItem i in this.treeRelease.Items)

            {

                if (i.Tag == sentObject)

                {

                    i.ExpandAll();

                    i.IsSelected = true;

                }

            }

        }

however it doesn't seem to be a hard select. When I click on one of the tree view items it's highlighted yellow (default theme), but when I select it programmatically it's highlighted silver. If I try to get the currently selected tree view item after doing the above it will come back as null (I.E. trying RadTreeViewItem item = (RadTreeViewItem)this.treeRelease.SelectedItem;). It's also not throwing my SelectionChanged event. Am I doing this wrong? 

Thanks!

[Anne Lyon]

I am trying to do exactly the same and experience the same problem.
I have a Header, or a Tag for that matter, and I need to find the node in the tree that corresponds to this, select it and expand it.
I find the node easily (by recursively traversing my tree) but 'foundNode.IsSelected= true' does not fire the Selected event and the tree's SelectedItem is null.
What can we do?

[Kiril Stanoev]

Hi Jake,

You need to focus the treeview after programatically selecting an item. Please take a look at the attached project for further reference and let me know if this approach suites you.

@Anne - I was not able to reproduce the issue you describe. Please take a look at the attached project as well.

Best wishes,
Kiril Stanoev
the Telerik team

[Jake]

Hey Kiril,

That didn't work for me. I looked at the example you sent as well and didn't see a RadTreeView in the project. Here's what I'm trying now:

public void selectNodeByRelease(Release sentObject)
{
foreach (RadTreeViewItem i in this.treeRelease.Items)
{
if (i.Tag == sentObject)
{
i.ExpandAll();
i.Focus();
}
}

}


The set focus didn't help, I tried setting it on the node and on the treeview itself. I also tried doing this.tree.selecteditem = i and that didn't work either. 

[Jake]

nevermind, I got it. I need to focus() before I set the isSelected bool. Thanks Kiril, never would have figured out that I had to use Focus().