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arman nejahi
arman nejahi

Reputation: 21

How to handle mouse hover event for specific control in Microsoft visual C++ ( MFC )?

In my application I need to handle mouse hover event to change the background of a button. Using the MFC class wizard, I couldn't find a mouse hover entry in the list of events for that item. I tried using PreTranslateMessage, but it doesn't work. How can I handle that event?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4400

Answers (1)

IInspectable
IInspectable

Reputation: 51395

Mouse hover events aren't generated by default. You have to request them by calling TrackMouseEvent with a properly populated TRACKMOUSEEVENT structure:

TRACKMOUSEEVENT tme = { 0 };
tme.cbSize = sizeof( tme );
tme.dwFlags = TME_HOVER;
tme.hwndTrack = myButton;
tme.dwHoverTime = myHoverTime;  // HOVER_DEFAULT, or the hover timeout in milliseconds.
::TrackMouseEvent( &tme );

The system will then generate WM_MOUSEHOVER messages if the mouse hovers over myButton for myHoverTime milliseconds.

Since the WM_MOUSEHOVER message is posted to the window that requested mouse hover messages, you will have to derive a custom button control, with appropriate entries in its message map. In particular, you will have to use the ON_WM_MOUSEHOVER() macro and implement afx_msg void OnMouseHover(UINT, CPoint) (see WM_ Message Handlers: L - M for reference).

Upvotes: 5

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