Re: mouse button status

Displaying a message box is a bit more involved than simply changing the
text of a button. Actually since you want to change the text of a messagebox
then you can't really use a messagebox, you will have to use a modeless
dialog.

If you were to simply change the text of a control on your dialog, then

first you catch the WM_LBUTTONDOWN message
void CMyAppDlg::OnLButtonDown(....)
{
    c_ButtonStatus.SetWindowText(_T("L Button Dn"));
}

then you catch the WM_LBUTTONUP message
void CMyAppDlg::OnLButtonUp(...)
{
    c_ButtonStatus.SetWindowText(_T("L Button Up"));
}

Now if you want to do the modeless dialog then in the OnLButtonDown, you
would create/show the modeless dialog, and then in the OnLButtonUp you would
change the text in the dialog. With that said, I'm not exactly sure you
would get the OnLButtonUp message if you were to popup another dialog in
your OnLButtonDown, I would have to write a sample to test this, but I'm
pretty sure that it would go to the new dialog.

With the first case, keep in mind that if you do this and the user clicks in
your window and then moves the mouse outside of your window, and then
releases the mouse you will not get the up message, unless you capture the
mouse.

void CMyAppDlg::OnLButtonDown(....)
{
    SetCapture();
    c_ButtonStatus.SetWindowText(_T("L Button Dn"));
}

void CMyAppDlg::OnLButtonUp(...)
{
    ReleaseCapture();
    c_ButtonStatus.SetWindowText(_T("L Button Up"));
}

AliR.

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