TreeModelEvent(source:Object, path:TreePath, childIndices:Array, children:Array)
TreeModelEvent(source:Object, path:Array, childIndices:Array, children:Array)
Used to create an event when nodes have been changed, inserted, or removed, identifying the path to the parent of the modified items as an array of Objects. All of the modified objects are siblings which are direct descendents (not grandchildren) of the specified parent. The positions at which the inserts, deletes, or changes occurred are specified by an array of int. The indexes in that array must be in order, from lowest to highest.

For changes, the indexes in the model correspond exactly to the indexes of items currently displayed in the UI. As a result, it is not really critical if the indexes are not in their exact order. But after multiple inserts or deletes, the items currently in the UI no longer correspond to the items in the model. It is therefore critical to specify the indexes properly for inserts and deletes.

For inserts, the indexes represent the final state of the tree, after the inserts have occurred. Since the indexes must be specified in order, the most natural processing methodology is to do the inserts starting at the lowest index and working towards the highest. Accumulate a Vector of Integer objects that specify the insert-locations as you go, then convert the Vector to an array of int to create the event. When the postition-index equals zero, the node is inserted at the beginning of the list. When the position index equals the size of the list, the node is "inserted" at (appended to) the end of the list.

For deletes, the indexes represent the initial state of the tree, before the deletes have occurred. Since the indexes must be specified in order, the most natural processing methodology is to use a delete-counter. Start by initializing the counter to zero and start work through the list from lowest to higest. Every time you do a delete, add the current value of the delete-counter to the index-position where the delete occurred, and append the result to a Vector of delete-locations, using addElement(). Then increment the delete-counter. The index positions stored in the Vector therefore reflect the effects of all previous deletes, so they represent each object's position in the initial tree. (You could also start at the highest index and working back towards the lowest, accumulating a Vector of delete-locations as you go using the insertElementAt(Integer, 0).) However you produce the Vector of initial-positions, you then need to convert the Vector of Integer objects to an array of int to create the event.

Notes:

• Like the insertNodeInto method in the DefaultTreeModel class, insertElementAt appends to the Vector when the index matches the size of the vector. So you can use insertElementAt(Integer, 0) even when the vector is empty.
  To create a node changed event for the root node, specify the parent and the child indices as null.
  Parameters

  	source:Object — the Object responsible for generating the event (typically the creator of the event object passes this for its value)
  	path:TreePath — a TreePath object or a object[] that identifies the path to the parent of the modified item(s)
  	childIndices:Array (default = null) — an array of int that specifies the index values of the modified items
  	children:Array (default = null) — an array of Object containing the inserted, removed, or changed objects

Returns the values of the child indexes. If this is a removal event the indexes point to locations in the initial list where items were removed. If it is an insert, the indices point to locations in the final list where the items were added. For node changes, the indices point to the locations of the modified nodes.

Returns the objects that are children of the node identified by getPath at the locations specified by getChildIndices. If this is a removal event the returned objects are no longer children of the parent node.

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Convenience method to get the array of objects from the TreePath instance that this event wraps.

For all events, except treeStructureChanged, returns the parent of the changed nodes. For treeStructureChanged events, returns the ancestor of the structure that has changed. This and getChildIndices are used to get a list of the effected nodes.

The one exception to this is a treeNodesChanged event that is to identify the root, in which case this will return the root and getChildIndices will return null.

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