i have c++ 4.0 and i was tryin to get goin. i understand the stuff up through overloading and was messin with mfc. it seemed like a neat way to program windows. i was makin a dialog based application. adding a tree control seemed appropriate for my idea. theres a button for a tree control on this dockable toolbar that allows you to put checkboxes and text and stuff but when you add it you cant modify the tree directly. I tried to find it in the code since the defaults are shown, you know leaf and enabled node and stuff but it isnt in there. Im not a good programmer and i would eventually like to know how to do all of these controls. Could someone point me in the right direction or just help me? I only have tutorials for c and they involve a lot of confusin code that seems to long for just a tree. why did they put that button?