Mimic MouseOver

Hi

i am right in thinking there isn't a mouseover function or a mouseLeave function in vb6?

i want to mimic this for a menu. i.e like in a browser your mouse goes over a clickable link and it changes colour.

i've tried to do this with a timer function, changing the labels colour on MouseMove then setting the timer to 1/2 second which after it should return the label back to it's normal colour. but its not working, the timer function is just executing straight away and not pausing for 1/2 second before executing the code?

Any ideas? what am i doing wrong?

Code:

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Private Sub Lbl_Menu_Details_MouseMove(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)

    Lbl_Menu_Details.ForeColor = RGB(200, 0, 0)
   
    Timer_Menu.Enabled = True
          Call Timer_Menu_Timer
    Timer_Menu.Enabled = False
End Sub

Private Sub Timer_Menu_Timer()

'This interval is set to 1/2 second
       
                Lbl_Menu_Details.ForeColor = 0
   
End Sub

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Thanks!!

Jon

You are explicitly calling the Timer_Menu_Timer sub, which runs it immediately. If you simply enable the timer (as you have already) then it will run when the interval is reached.

You will also need to move the line that disables the timer into the timer sub itself (otherwise it will disable it before it is fired).

Cool that worked thanks,

but experimenting with another way but the width and height parts of the IF OR
are not working any ideas why?

Code:

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Private Sub Lbl_Menu_Equip_MouseMove(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)

If (X < 10) Or (Y < 10) Or (X > Lbl_Menu_Equip.Width - 10) Or (Y > Lbl_Menu_Equip.Height - 10) Then
Lbl_Menu_Equip.ForeColor = 0
Else
Lbl_Menu_Equip.ForeColor = RGB(255, 0, 0)
End If

End Sub

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Thanks!

you could set the labels mouseicon property, then when the mouse moves over the label the mouse pointer would change to the icon, make sure to set the mousepointer property to 99 (custom)

i've sorted it just had to play about with the width and height minus

That will only work if the mouse actually goes into the area you specify (X from 0 to 9, or Y from 0 to 9, etc), and you cannot guarantee that will happen - especially as the default ScaleMode (thus value of X and Y, and .Width etc) is Twips, which is much smaller than a Pixel (typically 15 Twips in a Pixel, but it varies). If you change the 10 to about 90, it seems to almost work properly.

A better way of doing that would be to simply set the colour in there, and set it to 0 in the MouseMove event of the Form (or whatever control the label is on).. but that still allows room for error, as the mouse can move quickly, or the user can alt-tab to another program.


wes4dbt's suggestion is a good one, assuming of course that changing the mouse cursor is an appropriate solution for you.