Mouse messages in a Dialog

[James GrahamEagle]

Is it possible to get the messages %WM_MOUSEMOVE, %WM_LBUTTONDOWN and
%WM_LBUTTONUP messages sent to a DialogProc? You can get %WM_NCHITTEST
everytime the mouse is moved or a button pressed, but this gives the
mouse position only and does not say whether it was triggered by a mouse
move or button click.

[Scott Turchin]

Interesting question, I decided to throw a Control Send in and it failed.
I'm not sure why just yet, but the SendMessage piece works, try that, it's commented out below

CallBack Function DialogProc() As Long 'For hDlg
  Local wMsg            As Long
  Local wParam          As Long
  Local lParam          As Long  

  wMsg = CbMsg
  lParam = CbLparam
  wparam = CbWparam

  Select Case wMsg

    Case %WM_MOUSEMOVE
      zText = "Mouse Position:" + Str$(LoWrd(lParam)) + ","+Str$(HiWrd(lParam))
      Control Send hDlg,hStatus, %WM_SETTEXT,0,VarPtr(zText)
      'SendMessage hStatus, %WM_SETTEXT, 0, VarPtr(zText)
      Function = 0
      Exit Function

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Scott Turchin

[Scott Turchin]

PS...

These guys taught me about the BN_CLICKED piece, can't believe I never used it before:


This is from the same DialogProc above, the code checks to see if the menu was clicked before it launches a new thread:

    Case %WM_COMMAND
      Select Case LoWrd(wParam)
             Case %IDM_ACHECK
                 Select Case CbCtlMsg
                     Case %BN_CLICKED
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                        If IsFalse g_lngInitThreadHandle Then
                           Thread Create InitThread(id) To g_lngInitThreadHandle
                           Thread Close g_lngInitThreadHandle To Result
                        End If
                        Function = 1
                        Exit Function
                 End Select

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Scott Turchin

[Lance Edmonds]

Control Send hDlg,hStatus, %WM_SETTEXT,0,VarPtr(zText)
'SendMessage hStatus, %WM_SETTEXT, 0, VarPtr(zText)

Scott, CONTROL SEND requires an ID for the control, not the handle of the control.


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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
( mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A> )

[James GrahamEagle]

Oops, I guess my question was less than clear. What I need is to know
when the mouse is moved, pressed etc. Windows does not seem to pass
this to the dialogproc the way it does to a window proc (or at least
something is eating it along the way). I have since found I can get the
messages by subclassing the DlgProc using SetWindowLong (%DWL_DLGPROC, ..)