How to stop mouse click on a form

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Hi ,
I need to know how can i stop the mouse click on the form in C# windows application.
i need to keep the other forms of the application active and need to disable clicks on just this one form.
i dont want to use the form.Enabled = false property as it greys out the entire form.
i have been looking in Message Filters but am unable to make proper use of them.

Please help.

Regards,
Saurabh

Posted 13-Jul-11 2:09am

Saurabh.abhyankar

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Saurabh.abhyankar 14-Jul-11 0:21am

Thank you guys for the help . I think i will go with the Enabled = false property as most of u suggest. Thanks a lot

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BobJanova · Answer 1 · 2011-07-13T04:58:00

Solution 3

You should use Enabled, that's what it's there for. The greying out is a UI cue so that users of your application know that the form is not going to respond to input, instead of just thinking it crashed.

You can just have a boolean flag and check that in your Click or MouseDown events and not do anything if events are 'turned off'.

Posted 13-Jul-11 4:58am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 13-Jul-11 16:25pm

You're absolutely right, my 5. I added an explanation on why do I think so -- please see my solutions.
--SA

Mohammad A Rahman 15-Jul-11 19:16pm

5, nice explanation.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2011-07-13T10:24:00

Solution 4

If you don't use Enabled and confuse the user and make them feel like an idiot who clicks and clicks and nothing happens. What you want it possible, but you should not want it. Your users will through your application to dumpster real quick where it truly belongs. Don't get yourself in trouble.

—SA

Posted 13-Jul-11 10:24am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Espen Harlinn 13-Jul-11 18:07pm

Good point, my 5

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 13-Jul-11 18:18pm

Thank you, Espen.
--SA

KUMAR619 24-Jul-15 19:57pm

I am having a doubt regarding mouse click.
I am loading a gridview containig nearly 3000 records. while its populating if I click anywhere on the form I get a not responding message.
I tried Disabling mouse Click, deregistering event handler and even diabled the form but none of these works. Kindly help me to get rid of this issue.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Jul-15 21:11pm

Of course your click won't be handled if you do everything in the UI thread...
—SA

KUMAR619 27-Jul-15 2:50am

@SA Then how can I stop the "Not Responding Message".

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Jul-15 10:29am

There is no such thing. You don't need to "stop" any message; you have to keep your application responsive.

It you show me some code of non-responsive application, it's possible that I show you your bug. So far, this question is irrelevant to your original question.

—SA

RaviRanjanKr · Answer 3 · 2011-07-13T03:29:00

Solution 2

This Link-[Disabling mouse movement and clicks altogether in c#][^] might help you.

Posted 13-Jul-11 3:29am

RaviRanjanKr

S Houghtelin · Answer 4 · 2011-07-13T03:16:00

Solution 1

Do not put anything in the form that is clickable. For instance, use a caption rather than a textbox to display data.

If you do, capture the click event for that object to pass the focus to where you would like.

Posted 13-Jul-11 3:16am

S Houghtelin

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Tee123 · Answer 5 · 2011-07-13T10:44:00

Solution 5

You should change the cursor of the mouse to a Wait Cursor then when you are finished with your process change it back to the Arrow Cursor. However, I think setting the enable to false is a good option as well.

Posted 13-Jul-11 10:44am

Tee123