13 Dec 2006

What goes up must come down...

What goes up must come down… So you might think that after each CellMouseDown event you recieve a CellMouseUp event… Well, here is some code that proves that isn’t always true

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
	private string lastEvent;

	public Form1()
	{
		InitializeComponent();
		this.dataGridView1.ColumnCount = 10;
		this.dataGridView1.RowCount = 10;
	}

	public string LastEvent
	{
		get { return this.lastEvent; }
		set {
			if (this.lastEvent == value)
			{
				MessageBox.Show("i've detected two " + value + " after each other");
			}
			this.lastEvent = value;
		}
	}

	private void dataGridView1_CellMouseDown(object sender, DataGridViewCellMouseEventArgs e)
	{
		LastEvent = "MouseDown";
	}

	private void dataGridView1_CellMouseUp(object sender, DataGridViewCellMouseEventArgs e)
	{
		LastEvent = "MouseUp";
	}
}

And with a bit of a twisted optical mouse it’s pretty easy to see the following MessageBox

MessageBox that says the MouseDownEvent was captured two times after each other

After a bit of research i also found the following at MouseEventArgs

Tim Van Wassenhove

What goes up must come down...