MouseHover/MouseLeave event on the whole entire window

I have Form subclass with handlers for MouseHover and 开发者_如何学PythonMouseLeave. When the pointer is on the background of the window, the events work fine, but when the pointer moves onto a control inside the window, it causes a MouseLeave event.

Is there anyway to have an event covering the whole window.

(.NET 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, Windows XP.)

Ovveride the MouseLeave event to not trigger so long as the mouse enters a child control

    protected override void OnMouseLeave(EventArgs e)
    {
        if (this.ClientRectangle.Contains(this.PointToClient(Control.MousePosition)))
            return;
        else
        {
            base.OnMouseLeave(e);
        }
    }

When the mouse leave event is fired one option is to check for the current position of the pointer and see if it within the form area. I am not sure whether a better option is available.

Edit: We have a similar question which might be of interest to you. How to detect if the mouse is inside the whole form and child controls in C#?

There is no good way to make MouseLeave reliable for a container control. Punt this problem with a timer:

public partial class Form1 : Form {
    public Form1() {
        InitializeComponent();
        timer1.Interval = 200;
        timer1.Tick += new EventHandler(timer1_Tick);
        timer1.Enabled = true;
    }

    private bool mEntered;

    void timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e) {
        Point pos = this.PointToClient(Cursor.Position);
        bool entered = this.ClientRectangle.Contains(pos);
        if (entered != mEntered) {
            mEntered = entered;
            if (!entered) {
                // Do your leave stuff
                //...
            }
        }
    }
}

On your user control create a mousehover Event for your control like this, (or other event type) like this

private void picBoxThumb_MouseHover(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    // Call Parent OnMouseHover Event
    OnMouseHover(EventArgs.Empty);
}

On your WinForm which hosts the UserControl have this for the UserControl to Handle the MouseOver so place this in your Designer.cs

this.thumbImage1.MouseHover += new System.EventHandler(this.ThumbnailMouseHover);

Which calls this method on your WinForm

private void ThumbnailMouseHover(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

    ThumbImage thumb = (ThumbImage) sender;

}

Where ThumbImage is the type of usercontrol