mouse leave

[p_c]

I am using mouse enter/leave to change the back colour of a button. Clicking the button hides the form. When the form is re-displayed mouse enter/leave do not work. I am guessing that this is because the mouse leave event wasn't triggered when the form was hidden. If so is there any way to trigger this event ?

[brown monkey]

i don't know much about what are you doing. but i have this and it works.

'in form1
dim f as new form2
sub button1_click(sender as object,e as eventargs) handles button1.click
  f.show()
end sub
 
'and in form2
sub button1_mouseenter(sender as object,e as eventargs) handles button1.mouseenter
  button1.backcolor=color.brown 'monkey, lol
end sub
sub button1_mouseleave(sender as object, e as eventargs) handles button1.mouseleave
  button1.backcolor=nothing
end sub
 
sub bb(sender as object,e as eventargs) handles button1.click
  me.hide()
end sub

hope i don't bark a wrong tree...

[p_c]

Thanks brown monkey. If you replace f.show with f.showdialog in your code then mouse enter/leave only work the first time form2 is displayed. Can anyone explain why this is ?

[brown monkey]

i don't know much about this but i think it has to do with the instantiation. put dim f as new form2() inside the button click event along with the .showdialog(). it works.

[p_c]

thanks, i agree this works. however i am using a public statement in a module, not a dim statement, for the form. so i am looking for an alternative solution.