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MouseButtonTest
This is a simple program I wrote when I needed to detect the right mouse button click in a listbox and couldn’t find it in the VS.NET IDE. In the documentation I came across a class called "MouseEventArgs".
MouseEventArgs is passed to a MouseEventHandler defined for the listbox. In the InitializeComponent() method for the form is the definition and initialization of the components of the form. I added The following to this section:
this.m_listbox.MouseDown
+= new
System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventHandler(this.ButtonDown);
This sets the method ButtonDown to receive all mouse button events. There I determine what button was pressed, what row was clicked on, and display the results. The only events I see useful are left, right, and middle. Microsoft added two more events, XButton1 and XButton2, for it’s own devices. The documentation even has a ‘none’ event, which I cannot fathom. That’s about it.
//———————————————————————
private void
OKButtonClick(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
Application.Exit();
}
//———————————————————————
private void
ButtonDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs mea)
{
int nDx = 0; //This will
be the 0 based index of the row clicked on
if (mea.Button ==
MouseButtons.Right) { //Check for right button click
MessageBeep(16);
m_mouse_event.Text = "Right
Button Clicked\r\n";
}
else if
(mea.Button == MouseButtons.Left) { //Check for Left
button click
MessageBeep(256);
m_mouse_event.Text = "Left
Button Clicked\r\n";
}
nDx = mea.Y / m_listbox.ItemHeight; //Get
Index of item selected
m_mouse_event.Text = m_mouse_event.Text +
"Item
height = " + m_listbox.ItemHeight.ToString()+ "\r\n" +
"X
position = " + mea.X.ToString() + "\r\n" +
"Y
position = " + mea.Y.ToString() + "\n" +"\r\n"+
"Index = " + nDx.ToString();
if ( m_listbox.Items.Count
<= nDx ) m_mouse_event.Text = m_mouse_event.Text + "\r\n" +
"Row
Clicked Beyond Table size";
else
m_listbox.SetSelected(nDx,true);
//highlight row selected
}
//——————————————————————-
