Question

I am having a treeview with one root node . I have written MouseHoverEvent as follows

   private void tvwACH_NodeMouseHover(object sender, TreeNodeMouseHoverEventArgs e)
    {

        string strFile = string.Empty;
        if (e.Node.Parent.Text == "FileHeader")
        {
            strFile = e.Node.ToString();

            string str = strFile.Substring(10);
            StringComparison compareType = StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase;
            string fileName = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(str);
            string extension = Path.GetExtension(str);
            if (extension.Equals(".txt", compareType))
            {

                StringBuilder osb = new StringBuilder();
                objFileHeader.getFileHeader(str, out osb);
                e.Node.ToolTipText = Convert.ToString(osb);
            }
        }

    }

But if i had my mouse on the root node i am getting an error as null exceptio handled. If i had my mouse hover the root node nothing should be happened. Can any one help me please.

Answer 1

private void tvwACH_NodeMouseHover(object sender, TreeNodeMouseHoverEventArgs e)
{
     string strFile = string.Empty;

     // the problem is here, root node does not have a parent
     // also added a fix
     if (e.Node.Parent != null && e.Node.Parent.Text == "FileHeader")
     {
          strFile = e.Node.ToString();

          string str = strFile.Substring(10);
          StringComparison compareType = StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase;
          string fileName = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(str);
          string extension = Path.GetExtension(str);
          if (extension.Equals(".txt", compareType))
          {
              StringBuilder osb = new StringBuilder();
              objFileHeader.getFileHeader(str, out osb);
              e.Node.ToolTipText = Convert.ToString(osb);
          }
     }
}