Re-expand treeview item - c++

Question

I am working on an old MFC application. There is a TreeView control in the application. OnItemExpanding function is overridden. I am getting children of a TreeViewItem by it is expanded. If a node is expanded for the first time its children are populated. If there are no children to an item then the expand icon (+ sign) removes from the TreeViewItem.
Now problem is that I expanded one node which doesn't have children. After doing some work children are added to that node. But now I cannot get newly added children as expand icon is missing. How I can refresh that particular node in the TreeView. I have created a refresh button. In that I am able to find my current selected node in the TreeView, but what next.
Here is the code.
void CMyTreeView::OnItemExpanding(CTreeCtrl& tree, NMHDR* pNMHDR, LRESULT* pResult)
{
//This is only called when I click on expand (+ sign)
//some check here which populates children.
}
void CMyTreeView::RefreshNode(CTreeCtrl& tree, HTREEITEM selectedNode)
{
// What should I do here?
}

Answer 1

You have to set cChildren of TVITEM to 'one':
TVITEM tvItem = {0};
tvItem.mask = TVIF_HANDLE | TVIF_CHILDREN;
tvItem.hItem = selectedNode;
tvItem.cChildren = 1;
tree.SetItem(&tvItem);

Answer 2

You are trying to reinvent what common controls library already can do for you.
What you need to do is, when you insert a "folder" item set itemex.cChildren = I_CHILDRENCALLBACK which will tell the tree to send you TVN_GETDISPINFO notification when it needs to know if the item has children. It will then similarly send TVN_GETDISPINFO for every individual child.
It will only send the notifications when it is absolutely necessary, so you won't need to do any expensive stuff in vain.

Answer 3

I would say, you need to change the ItemState: http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/ce034e69%28v=vs.80%29.aspx
BOOL SetItemState(
HTREEITEM hItem,
UINT nState,
UINT nStateMask
);
Take a look at the HTREEITEM:
typedef struct tagTVITEM {
UINT mask;
HTREEITEM hItem;
UINT state;
UINT stateMask;
LPTSTR pszText;
int cchTextMax;
int iImage;
int iSelectedImage;
int cChildren;
LPARAM lParam;
} TVITEM, *LPTVITEM;
cChildren Type: int
Flag that indicates whether the item has associated child items. This member can be one of the following values.