Disable selection in CTreeCtrl

[Mza]

I don't know if it is possible but I have a CTreeCtrl object with checkboxes and that works fine. The thing is that I don't like the selection in my tree. I already have checkboxes so I do not have to see what item is selected. I tried unselecting the tree item in the OnSelChanged function like this:

void CMyTree::OnSelchanged(NMHDR* pNMHDR, LRESULT* pResult) 
{
	NM_TREEVIEW* pNMTreeView = (NM_TREEVIEW*)pNMHDR;
	HTREEITEM hItem = this->GetSelectedItem();
	this->SetItemState(hItem, 0, TVIS_SELECTED );

	*pResult = 0;
}

But then the selecting and unselecting is noticeable. Is there a way to completely disable the selection functionality of the CTreeCtrl class?

[real name]

i think for this is TVN_SELCHANGING not TVN_SELCHANGED
but works with user changes only - is this your problem?
or this too? http://www.codeproject.com/dialog/reflectedmsgs.asp
t!

[Mza]

I tried changing TVN_SELCHANED to TVN_SELCHANGING but that does not work with me. I think the problem is that MFC automatically updates the tree with a visible selection after TVN_SELCHANGING.

The best solution would of course be to totally disable the selection ability. So that when a user clicks on the tree you do not see a blue bar and nothing (visually) changes.

An other (dirty) solution could be to change the selection color from blue to white. But first I want to figure out if the selection can be totally disabled.