Editor: The FolderTreeview (FTV) control is not a standard treeview control, but one that provides functionality nearly identical to the folder tree pane in Explorer - from My Computer to Printers and Control Panel. It provides developers with the ability for his or her program to browse the shell's entire namespace and display the shell's folders in their current state. Though it is implemented directly from Comctl32.dll, it exposes and returns many properties and methods Similar to that of the TreeView control found in comctl32.ocx.
The FolderTreeview Control is extremely complex requiring over two years of research, development and testing. Painstaking testing of the control's functionality and behaviour has been made on Win95, Win98 and WinNT4, as well as on the latest-available build of Windows 2000.
New features
Added hidden AttributesEx property to Folder class, allowing the retrieval of specified shell attributes.
New/Altered Behavior
Environment variables are now automatically expanded when specified for the RootFolder and SelectedFolder's Name properties.
