Determine when dragging a form has stopped.

[Bob Johnson]

How can I programmatically determine when a MDI child form has been dragged
from one location to another within its MDI parent form? Ideally I'd like to
trap some event that occurs when the dragging has stopped.

Thanks.

[John Sheppard]

Id say the dragging stops when the user lets go of the mouse button...

As for stopped moving I guess you could make ur own event....

Im a noob tho so im not sure...

"Bob Johnson" <[e-mail] in message
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How can I programmatically determine when a MDI child form has been
dragged from one location to another within its MDI parent form? Ideally
I'd like to trap some event that occurs when the dragging has stopped.

Thanks.

[Bob Johnson]

Hi John,

If you are not sure, or don't even have the foggiest idea of how to be
helpful here, then please feel free to NOT respond.

The problem with responding with useless information - as you did here - is
that it creates the perception that the question has in fact been answered.
The problem here is that others who might know the answer or could be
actually helpful might not bother to read the original question.

BTW: How in the world would you- in your best of intentions - think that
your answers could be in any way helpful? Am I supposed to read what you
wrote and think - "yes - that's it!". Sheesh. "user let's go of the mouse
button. Okay - great - how do we trap for that? "make ur own event" -
what? "ur" --- you are apparently so lazy that you can't even write out
"your". And even if I can get past that (which I can), then, okay I'll
write my own event... followup question for you then - when do I fire my own
event? - let me gusss - when the user "lets go" of the mouse button. Okay
great - how do we determine that? Oh, let me guess - I'll write my own
event. Wash, rinse, repeat - brilliant!

-Bob

"John Sheppard" <no****@spamspam.comwrote in message
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Id say the dragging stops when the user lets go of the mouse button...

As for stopped moving I guess you could make ur own event....

Im a noob tho so im not sure...

"Bob Johnson" <[e-mail] in message
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>How can I programmatically determine when a MDI child form has been
dragged from one location to another within its MDI parent form? Ideally
I'd like to trap some event that occurs when the dragging has stopped.

Thanks.

[Peter Duniho]

On 2007-11-20 17:16:08 -0800, "Bob Johnson" <[e-mail]:

Hi John,

If you are not sure, or don't even have the foggiest idea of how to be
helpful here, then please feel free to NOT respond.

The problem with responding with useless information - as you did here - is
that it creates the perception that the question has in fact been answered.
The problem here is that others who might know the answer or could be
actually helpful might not bother to read the original question.

For what it's worth, the thing most likely to get in the way of you
getting a good answer to your question is the broad, inappropriate
cross-posting. The more newsgroups you include, the more likely it is
you'll attract answers from someone who isn't going to provide the
answer you want or think is useful.

Also, I don't really see the point in berating the answer you got.
Maybe it wasn't really helpful, but I didn't see any sign that the guy
was yanking your chain. Assuming he was really trying to help,
criticizing him isn't a great way to encourage other people that also
might really try to help.

Pete

[Bob Johnson]

<snip>

RE:

>>I don't really see the point in berating the answer you got.

The point is to discourage such useless posts... my little part to help with
the signal-to-noise ratio. And yes, I know, explaining that, in itself,
hurts the signal-to-noise ratio...

RE:

>broad, inappropriate cross-posting.

Gotcha - maybe just the winforms group would have been best. I did think
about it before doing it, though... seems like nobody knew the answer to my
earlier/similar question from yesterday - so figured I'd widen the scope a
bit and refocus the question. I didn't know that 3 groups would be
considered as "broad"... I'll take that into account in the future.

Back to the OP: After all this there is apparently there is no way to
determine when a user has stopped moving/dragging a mdi child form. Do you
have any ideas on that?

[John Sheppard]

Sorry,

Perhaps it wasnt helpful...but sometimes when no one else can answer little
things can trigger to help you think of other things...just offering what
little I know is all...

I guess what I was trying to get at, was that do you mean drag and drop as
you want to track when the mouse button is let go, or do you mean move as in
when the drag moves over a pixel...I realise i didnt state that very well
and that wasnt very helpful.

How could you have an event that determines when it stops moving? that would
require a timer and as far as I know there is no property that stores one.
So I'd guess youd have to make your own...

John

"Bob Johnson" <[e-mail] in message
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<snip>

RE:

>>>I don't really see the point in berating the answer you got.

The point is to discourage such useless posts... my little part to help
with the signal-to-noise ratio. And yes, I know, explaining that, in
itself, hurts the signal-to-noise ratio...

RE:

>>broad, inappropriate cross-posting.

Gotcha - maybe just the winforms group would have been best. I did think
about it before doing it, though... seems like nobody knew the answer to
my earlier/similar question from yesterday - so figured I'd widen the
scope a bit and refocus the question. I didn't know that 3 groups would be
considered as "broad"... I'll take that into account in the future.

Back to the OP: After all this there is apparently there is no way to
determine when a user has stopped moving/dragging a mdi child form. Do you
have any ideas on that?

[Bob Johnson]

<snip>

it....Id say it says stuff about pejoratives and narcissism...

Speaking of pejoratives - referring to onesself as a "noob" is quite the
pejorative. And I agree with you 100% if you are implying that such
pejoratives should be avoided.

-Bob