How to get Mouse Enter or Leave on Form border and title bar

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I want to know when the mouse pointer is over a form, just if the mouse is over the frame or the title bar.

MouseEnter and MouseLeave events will be fired, if Mouse goes inside respectively outside the "inner area" (form1.ClientRectangle) of the Form. But I will see an event, if the mouse goes inside respectively outside the form1.DesktopBounds.

Posted 20-Nov-12 22:16pm

BlackMilan

Updated 21-Nov-12 3:42am

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David Goebet · Answer 1 · 2012-11-20T23:30:00

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I think you cant handle this - if the "title bar" ( i think you mean the border of the window) has focus

the frame is easy to access just use

private void Form1_MouseEnter(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            textBox1.Text = "asdf";
        }

or whatever should happen ;)

Posted 20-Nov-12 23:30pm

David Goebet

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BlackMilan 21-Nov-12 9:41am

I think, you doesn't understand the problem behind. MouseEnter and MouseLeave events will be fired, if Mouse goes inside respectively outside the "inner area" (form1.ClientRectangle) of the Form. But I will see an event, if the mouse goes inside respectively outside the form1.DesktopBounds.

David Goebet 21-Nov-12 9:54am

then you have to extract the bounds of the form and then listen till your mouse cursor is in that area

and if this is still not what you wanted im totally clueless :D