Question

I’m confused. I am basically trying to tell when the user has clicked something in the listbox, held the button, and left the listbox. Here is a somewhat dumbed down version of what I am doing:

private bool itemHeld;
    private void listOriginal_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
    {
        itemHeld = true;
    }

    private void listOriginal_MouseUp(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
    {
        itemHeld = false;
    }

    private void listOriginal_MouseLeave(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (itemHeld)
            MessageBox.Show("OHH YEAH");
    }

To me that seems like it should turn itemHeld true when you press the mousebutton, turn it false only if you lift it, and display ohh yeah if the value is true. If I break on the mouse down event to check the value, it is true and if I continue from there it displays the message. If I do not break, it does nothing. Is there something else at work here?

Edit:
Brief description: It would be difficult to explain what I am really trying to accomplish but imagine something almost like dragging a file off of a window. I need to simply be able to recognize when the user clicks inside of the listbox and then drags out of the listbox if that makes sense

Answer 1

what about this?

private void listBox1_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{

    if (e.X > listBox1.Width - 1 || e.Y > listBox1.Height - 1 || e.X < 0 || e.Y < 0) 
    {
        Console.WriteLine("drag out");
    }
    else
        Console.WriteLine("mouse move {0}/{1}", e.X, e.Y);
}

it uses the fact that the Control is not left before the mousebutton is released … but be aware that the drag out part will occur more than once so you probably will want to have a flag set the first time … and have that flag cleared on mouse up or leave