Changing the color of items in a tree control

[flycast]

I need to change background of font color of the parent item of a currently added child. Everything I try fails. No error, it just doesn't happen. There is a fundamental thing I don't understand here about accessing the item. This is how I am trying to change the color on an item I just entered:

Nothing changes.

Who can I change the background color of the last item I just entered?

[LucianM · Accepted solution]

Set the active tag (Active Item -> Tag) property before setting the font color:

[flycast]

Thank you. I am currently not setting the tag value but allowing the system to automatically set it. How do I retrieve the tag for the item I just created?

[flycast]

I think I am not understanding what tag is and exactly how it is used.

[Kyle97330]

A tag is a unique identifier for every item in a tree.  If you don't assign one, whatever is put into the "Left cell string" becomes the tag.  If that is also blank, or if you try and create something with a tag that already exists, LabVIEW will add numbers to the tag to force it to be unique.

[flycast]

So a tag is like a key? 

How would I retrieve the tag that was automatically assigned when I created the item if the tag had a number appended by LabVIEW when it was created?

In my case my date may look like this:

Item1

   - Child A

   - Child B

Item2

   - Child A

   - Child B

When Child A is created over and over it will have a number appended to the end. I need to know what the system created for the tag based on what I said to make tag so I can look up the last created item.

[paul_cardinale]

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@flycast wrote:

Thank you. I am currently not setting the tag value but allowing the system to automatically set it. How do I retrieve the tag for the item I just created?

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The output of "Add Item to End" is the tag if the item just created.

[flycast]

Sure enough! Thanks! That clears a lot up.