Detect if ANY control is clicked inside a form, regardless of the container

[Dennis Bork]

Hey all, is there a way to detect if ANY control is clicked inside a form? The MouseUp, -Down and so on events can only be set for the form itself, but as far as I have tested i out not for any controls that reside inside it - true? Is there another way? Cheers, Dennis

[Lost User]

Please don't crosspost; pick a forum and stick with it. Most of us read multiple forums, and it scatters the answers over various threads. Original thread is here[^].

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[Lost User]

Dennis Bork wrote:

The MouseUp, -Down and so on events can only be set for the form itself, but as far as I have tested i out not for any controls that reside inside it - true? Is there another way?

False, anything that inherits from Control[^]. See Richards'[^] answer for a recursive method that loops all controls, and hook 'em up to a single event-handler. The 'sender' argument would tell you what control was clicked.

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[April Fans]

Hello Dennis Bork, With regards to your question, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/986529/how-to-detect-if-the-mouse-is-inside-the-whole-form-and-child-controls-in-c Hope this helps! Best of Luck! With Kind Regards,

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[jenitshah]

try this logic... On Form MouseClick Event { if typeof control (at current mouse pointer) not equal to panel, and groupbox and... Then { detected that non container contol is clicked } else { detected that container contol is clicked }

[Simon Bridge]

Hi, One other (slightly heavy handed) possibility is to override the Windows Procedure in your form. You can then intercept all the windows messages it receives, and filter down to the mouse events. eg:

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)
    {
        base.WndProc(ref m);
    }
}

You can get an enum containing all the windows message constants here: [^]