TVM_GETITEM Overview  Group

The TVM_GETITEM message retrieves some or all of a tree-view item’s attributes. You can send this message explicitly or by using the TreeView_GetItem macro.

TVM_GETITEM 

wParam = 0; 

lParam = (LPARAM) (TV_ITEM FAR*) pitem; 

 

Parameters

pitem

Pointer to a TV_ITEM structure that specifies the information to retrieve and receives information about the item. When the message is sent, the hItem member identifies the item to retrieve information about and the mask member specifies the attributes to retrieve.

If the mask member specifies the TVIF_TEXT value, the pszText member must contain the pointer to the buffer that receives the item text and the cchTextMax member must specify the size of the buffer.

If the mask member specifies the TVIF_STATE value, the stateMask member must specify the item state bits to retrieve. On output, the state member contains the values of the specified state bits.

Return Values

Returns TRUE if successful or FALSE otherwise.

See Also

TreeView_GetItem, TV_ITEM