# haxe-ui
- c
clever-yak-82528
08/29/2022, 6:26 AMso i have to manually specify the ids? - b
bright-gpu-74537
08/29/2022, 6:26 AMno, it just means what field from its data it will use to build the string path - c
clever-yak-82528
08/29/2022, 6:27 AMor is there an auto incremented index counter? - b
bright-gpu-74537
08/29/2022, 6:27 AMie, "My Root Text/My Node Text/My Other Node" (thats what it would look like if it were using "text" for example - and assuming those were the "text"'s) - c
clever-yak-82528
08/29/2022, 6:31 AMso is there any way to get the index of the node? - b
bright-gpu-74537
08/29/2022, 6:31 AMindex relative to its parent node? - c
clever-yak-82528
08/29/2022, 6:32 AMyeah - b
bright-gpu-74537
08/29/2022, 6:32 AMsure, its just a child... so you should just be able to domyParentNode.getComponentIndex(myNode) - b
bright-gpu-74537
08/29/2022, 6:32 AMbut obviously myNode would have to be a direct child (node) of the parent - b
bright-gpu-74537
08/29/2022, 6:33 AMhow does node index help in anything anyway? (out of curiosity) - c
clever-yak-82528
08/29/2022, 6:34 AMbecause i want to display the correct page in the stack on the right based on the index - c
clever-yak-82528
08/29/2022, 6:34 AMthough hm - c
clever-yak-82528
08/29/2022, 6:34 AMthinking about it, it might be more sensible to do that based on the path - b
bright-gpu-74537
08/29/2022, 6:34 AMright, sounds like more effort than is needed, you might want to just add bit of data to the node when you populate it like "viewToShow" or whatever - c
clever-yak-82528
08/29/2022, 6:35 AMmhm - b
bright-gpu-74537
08/29/2022, 6:35 AMif you check out the .hx file on this example: http://haxeui.org/explorer/#containers/tree_views - b
bright-gpu-74537
08/29/2022, 6:36 AMyou can put anything you want in the node - c
clever-yak-82528
08/29/2022, 6:36 AMyeah - c
clever-yak-82528
08/29/2022, 6:36 AMi have an idea for this - b
bright-gpu-74537
08/29/2022, 6:36 AMso you could just do something likeswitch (mytree.selectedNode.viewToShow) { ... } - c
clever-yak-82528
08/29/2022, 6:37 AMi think i have a nice way of doing it - b
bright-gpu-74537
08/29/2022, 6:37 AMcool - in a moment im going it push a fix for hxWidgets, would you mind testing it out and seeing if it fixes that compile error? - c
clever-yak-82528
08/29/2022, 6:37 AMalright - b
bright-gpu-74537
08/29/2022, 6:37 AM👌 - thanks, bear with me - c
clever-yak-82528
08/29/2022, 6:37 AMthough, my code uses treeview, so... - b
bright-gpu-74537
08/29/2022, 6:38 AMwell, just a project that doesnt? If not, its fine, i can spin up my other machine, i just though you might be "good to go" - c
clever-yak-82528
08/29/2022, 6:38 AMhold on - b
bright-gpu-74537
08/29/2022, 6:39 AMnvm, ill spin up the other machine... probably makes more sense to do it there anyway - c
clever-yak-82528
08/29/2022, 6:39 AMnono i have another project - b
bright-gpu-74537
08/29/2022, 6:47 AMok, if you pull latest hxWidgets can you compile again?