Question

I can’t get this straight: I have one button that I want one action for the press event and one action for release, I’ve searched everywhere and can’t find an answer.

KeyDown, KeyUp or MouseLeftButtonDown doesn’t work with button on windows phone 7.

First I tried combining GotFocus and Click clickmode release like this:

(As you can see I want Image1 to be shown while pressing button, and hidden when releasing the button)

xaml:

Button Click="button1_Click" ClickMode="Release" GotFocus="button1_GotFocus" Content="byt" Height="72" Margin="0,500,6,0" Name="button1" VerticalAlignment="Top"

    private void button1_GotFocus(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        Image1.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Collapsed;
    }

    private void button1_Click (object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        Image1.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible;
    }

This works only one time and could work all the time if I could loose focus from the button when releasing it (tried searching for that as well)

The other thing I tried was changing the clickmode while pressing the button, but didn’t get that to work either..

something like this:

    private void button1_Click (object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        Image1.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Collapsed;

        button1.SetValue(Button.ClickModeProperty, ClickMode.Release);
        Image1.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible;
    }

(I know that the syntax is wrong somehow in the second one)

Would be grateful for help!

Answer 1

MouseLeftButtonDown / MouseLeftButtonUp do work on WP7. Obviously not named the best, but they do work on the device.

 <TextBlock x:Name="ApplicationTitle" MouseLeftButtonDown="ApplicationTitle_MouseLeftButtonDown" MouseLeftButtonUp="ApplicationTitle_MouseLeftButtonUp"
                   Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}"
                   Text="MY APPLICATION" />

You’ll see Down gets fired, and then immediately Up.

 private void ApplicationTitle_MouseLeftButtonDown(object sender, System.Windows.Input.MouseButtonEventArgs e)
        {

        }

        private void ApplicationTitle_MouseLeftButtonUp(object sender, System.Windows.Input.MouseButtonEventArgs e)
        {

        }