[DUG] Mouse over form

[Keith Allpress]

What about using the screen object, the activecontrol property and 
change event?
Just an idea.
K


John Bird wrote:
> I wish to have a small form be mainly transparent and less transparent when
> the mouse moves over it.  The form onMouseEnter and onMouseLeave are almost
> perfect, except that moving the mouse to any components on the form also
> fires the onMouseLeave event, and the border/title bar also is not counted
> as part of the form either.
>
> Question - Is there any way to detect the mouse is anywhere within the form
> without having to put mouse events on all components or doing a continuous
> monitoring of the mouse position?
>
> The best solution I have so far is to reduce the transparency of the form on
> MouseEnter, and leave it so for a few seconds before making it more
> transparent again after a few seconds...but its not ideal as this can happen
> if the mouse is still within the form.
>
> (One reason I don't want to put events into the components is that one of
> them a colorbutton already has a mouseover event to change color)
>
> John
>
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