[AccessD] Objects....

Francisco,

General approach:

In an Access form, I have found no simple way to determine when the mouse
has moved off of a control. The idea then, is to trap MouseMove events for
all controls and sections. When a control that you don't want to animate
receives a MouseMove, it must tell all controls that you are animating to
turn off their backcolor.

A few quick thoughts:

 * No need for the hidden box - just use the label's own BackColor property

 * You will need perhaps three objects:
   1. MouseOn object - sinks MouseMove event for Labels, TextBoxes, etc. Has
two functions. First, when it receives a MouseMove event, it changes the
control's BackColor 'on' if it is 'off', and notifies the MouseManager to
turn 'off' all other controls. Second, turns 'off' its backcolor when
requested by MouseManager.
   2. MouseOff object - sinks MouseMove events for Sections, Labels,
TextBoxes, etc. Includes all controls on the form that you don't want to
animate. Has one function: when it receives a MouseMove event, it notifies
the MouseManager to turn 'off' all other controls
   3. MouseManager object - maintains two collections: a MouseOn object
collection, and a MouseOff object collection. Has methods for adding a
MouseOn and a MouseOff object to each collection. Has a method which loops
through all MouseOn objects, telling them to turn their backcolors off,
except for the active one, if any. It also has a Destruct method which sets
both collections to nothing.

 * When loading, the form then must create the MouseManager object, and tell
it to add all controls to either the MouseOn or MouseOff collections. When
unloading, the form must destroy the MouseManager object.

Finally, you may end up disappointed with the quality of the animation you
get after all this effort. It is possible to move the mouse fast enough that
none of the controls get a MouseMove event, leaving one of the controls
highlighted, even though your cursor is off the form.

-Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: fhtapia at gmail.com [mailto:fhtapia at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:28 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Objects....


So I have a label class that has a function to turn the mouse icon to
a hand so users know it's a clickable item. I'd like to duplicate a
MouseOver event, so for that I'm going to place a hidden box under the
labels so when the mouse wanders off, I can change the color off
again...

I'd like to wrap the box into a class, but I'm having difficulty
envisioning how I'd call all the label class objects to change back to
the default color.


help tips and hints appreciated... doc, url links are appreciated even more
:D

btw, new version of firefox is out for those that don't know... this
is version 1.0 very very nice :)
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