Client Area Mouse Messages
A window receives a client area mouse message when a mouse event occurs within
the window's client area. The system posts the
WM_MOUSEMOVE message to the window when the user moves the cursor within the client area.
It posts one of the following messages when the user presses or releases a
mouse button while the cursor is within the client area.
Message Parameters
The
lParam parameter of a client area mouse message indicates the position of the cursor
hot spot. The low-order word indicates the x-coordinate of the hot spot, and
the high-order word indicates the y-coordinate. The coordinates are given in
client coordinates. In the client coordinate system, all points on the screen are given relative
to the coordinates (0,0) of the upper left corner of the client area.
The
wParam parameter contains flags that indicate the status of the other mouse buttons
and the CTRL and SHIFT keys at the time of the mouse event. You can check for these flags when
mouse-message processing depends on the state of another mouse button or of the CTRL or SHIFT key. The
lParam parameter can be a combination of the following values.
Value
| Meaning
|
MK_CONTROL
| The CTRL key is down.
|
MK_LBUTTON
| The left mouse button is down.
|
MK_MBUTTON
| The middle mouse button is down.
|
MK_RBUTTON
| The right mouse button is down.
|
MK_SHIFT
| The SHIFT key is down.
|
Double-Click Messages
The system generates a double-click message when the user clicks a mouse
button twice in quick succession. When the user clicks a button, the system
establishes a rectangle centered around the cursor hot spot. It also marks the time at
which the click occurred. When the user clicks the same button a second time,
the system determines whether the hot spot is still within the rectangle and
calculates the time elapsed since the first click. If the hot spot is still within
the rectangle and the elapsed time does not exceeded the double-click time-out
value, the system generates a double-click message.
An application can get and set double-click time-out values by using the
GetDoubleClickTime and
SetDoubleClickTime functions, respectively. Alternatively, the application can set the
double-click time-out value by using the SPI_SETDOUBLECLICKTIME flag with the
SystemParametersInfo function. It can also set the size of the rectangle that Windows uses to
detect double-clicks by passing the SPI_SETDOUBLECLKWIDTH and
SPI_SETDOUBLECLKHEIGHT flags to
SystemParametersInfo. Note, however, that setting the double-click time-out value and rectangle
affects all applications.
An application-defined window does not, by default, receive double-click
messages. Because of the system overhead involved in generating double-click
messages, these messages are generated only for windows belonging to classes that have
the CS_DBLCLKS class style. Your application must set this style when
registering the window class. For more information about window classes, see
Window Classes.
A double-click message is always the third message in a four-message series.
The first two messages are the button down and button up messages generated by
the first click. The second click generates the double-click message followed by
another button up message. For example, double-clicking the left mouse button
generates the following message sequence:
WM_LBUTTONDOWN
WM_LBUTTONUP
WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK
WM_LBUTTONUP
Because a window always receives a button down message before receiving a
double-click message, an application typically uses a double-click message to
extend a task it began during a button down message. For example, when the user
clicks a color in the color palette of Windows Paintbrush™, Paintbrush displays the selected color next to the palette. When the user
double-clicks a color, Paintbrush displays the color and opens the Edit Colors
dialog box.
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