Re: Get name of control at a certain mousedown point

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From: Bob Powell [MVP] (bob_at__spamkiller_bobpowell.net)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:00:41 +0100

The mouse event's will be handled by the individual controls so you'll need
to wire all the controls click events up to a handler in the tab page or tab
control. 

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"Brad" <ballison@ukcdogs.com> wrote in message 
news:%237iqPEEEFHA.3120@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>I have several labels and textboxes that are drawn to a tab page based on 
>certain criteria so these labels and textboxes can be drawn at different 
>points on the tab page.  I set the label and textbox names in the drawing 
>procedure.  Now what I need to do is to get the control's information on a 
>mouse down.
>
> Here is what I have:
>
> ////
> Private Sub tcGuard_MouseDown(ByVal sender as Object, ByVal e as 
> System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles tcGuard.Mousedown  'tcGuard 
> is a tab control
>    Dim mouseLocale as new point(e.X, e.Y)
>    dim tName as String
>    dim cntrl as New Control
>    cntrl = tcGuard.GetChildAtPoint(mouseLocale)
>    tname = cntrl.Name
> End Sub
> \\\\
>
> Here is the error message I get:  Object reference not set to an instance 
> of an object.
>
> All I need to do at this juncture is get the name of the label or textbox 
> that the mouse clicked on.
>
> If I am doing this wrong, please let me know and thanks for any help you 
> can give.
>
> Brad
>

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