Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers: Deitel Developer Series, Second Edition

13.11. Mouse-Event Handling

This section explains how to handle mouse events, such as clicks, presses and moves, which are generated when the user interacts with a control via the mouse. Mouse events can be handled for any control that derives from class System.Windows.Forms.Control. For most mouse events, information about the event is passed to the event-handling method through an object of class MouseEventArgs, and the delegate used to create the mouse-event handlers is MouseEventHandler. Each mouse-event-handling method for these events requires an Object and a MouseEventArgs object as arguments.

Class MouseEventArgs contains information related to the mouse event, such as the mouse pointer’s x- and y-coordinates, the mouse button pressed ...