Moving objects in VB.NET

[vbguy]

I am using this code to move a button at run time.

[code]

If e.Button = Windows.Forms.MouseButtons.Left Then
Button1.Capture = False
Dim msg As Message = _
Message.Create(Button1.Handle, WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN, _
New IntPtr(HTCAPTION), IntPtr.Zero)
Me.DefWndProc(msg)
End If
[/code]

Everything works as planned, however, I can not click on the button.
It basically freezes the click event and is only movable.

I was told to confirm the location on the mouse up event, but do not
exactly know what that means.

Can anyone help me on this subject?

Thanks in advance

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

What do you mean by move?

The location, you use the left property (the property meant for its left
location to something at least I don't understand)

Moving a location 10 points to the right in its parent container, you can
simply do with.

Button1.left = Button1.left+10

Properties to do this are location (which uses points), left and top

Success

Cor

"vbguy" <surfin...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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[Alex Clark]

Cor,

I believe he's trying to move the button by dragging it with the mouse, and
is using window messages to simulate a taskbar drag but on the button itself
rather than a window.

In answer to vbguy's question:

Have you tried calling ReleaseCapture with an hWnd of 0 afterwards?

Also, you're sending a message to the button indicating the left mouse
button was pressed on it's non-client area. Have you sent a corresponding
WM_NCLBUTTONUP message once the mouse button is released?

HTH,
Alex

"Cor Ligthert[MVP]" <Notmyfi...@planet.nl> wrote in message
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[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Alex,

Seems to me very difficult to do, to drag a button by a mouse, how do you
know that it was not a click.

But you never know what humans are able to think of they need to do

:-)

Cor

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[Armin Zingler]

Cor Ligthert[MVP] schrieb:

> Alex,
>
> Seems to me very difficult to do, to drag a button by a mouse, how do you
> know that it was not a click.

Like moving a file in Explorer. You can select it or drag it using an initial
threshold (see API function GetSystemMetric, SM_CXDRAG or SM_CYDRAG)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724385%28VS.85%29.aspx

--
Armin