Re: Again on kb_event. It almost works

From: L D Blake (not_at_any.adr)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:04:18 -0400

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:48:27 -0500, Rob Kennedy <me3@privacy.net> wrote:

>I think the combo box does capture the mouse (or something like that) by
>itself since it needs to know when the user clicks off the control. I
>can see the same behavior in Microsoft-written programs. Open the
>Windows "Run" dialog. Set focus to the combo box, and place the cursor
>over the edit portion, so it is an I-beam. Press Alt+Down to drop down
>the combo box. Move the mouse anywhere within the bounds of the dialog,
>and it will still be an I-beam. Outside the dialog, the cursor's shape
>appears is normally.

Actually that would be the editor capturing the mouse.

Comboboxes (which I use rather a lot) at winapi level don't generally cause
the mouse cursor to vanish nor do edit windows, which I also use quite a bit.

Frankly, this one's got me stumped.

-----
Laura

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