Set a node in a Treeview to bold

[Gian]

I'm trying to set the text of an item of a TreeView to bold. When i set the node font, the node continues to use the same width space for drawing the text as where the font was "plain", so the label is trunked at the end. There's a way to update correctly the space of the node? i've used this code before adding the node to the Nodes collection: TreeNode node = new TreeNode("Test", 0, 0); node.NodeFont = new Font(treeView.Font, FontStyle.Bold); treeView.Nodes.Add(node);

[Baris Kurtlutepe]

Yes there is a workaround: node.Font = new Font(someotherfont..); node.Text = node.Text; I know it looks silly, but it's the only workaround I found to force the treeview to recalculate the size of text with the new font/style etc.

[Heath Stewart]

This makes sense, since setting the Text property actually causes the class to send the TVM_SETITEM message to the underlying Tree-View common control with the TVIF_TEXT flag to set the text. If you set the text first, the underlying tree view probably isn't sent the text mask and hence the text is not sent. This would best be called a bug, but why it is necessary does make sense if you understand how the TreeView class works (i.e., it encapsulates its respective common control, as do most controls in Windows Forms).

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[Gian]

i cant see any differencies using that workaround. However i'm setting the new font before adding the node to the treeview, so the text area'd must be already recalculated, or not?