'Trapping' a double-click in RichTextEdit Mouse-down event

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6 total messages Started by John Fowler Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:40

Author: John Fowler
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:40

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Hi!

I have a rich text editbox on a form and when I double-click it, I want its text to be copied to myString. However, the program alwaly 'freezes' after the FIRST click; thus e.Clicks == 1 is always true and I can never click fast enough for e.Clicks ever to be '2'.

Here's my code:  

private void rtBox_MouseDown(object sender, system.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e)
{
   if ( e.Clicks == 2 )    //on double-click, copy text to grid
   {
    string myString = rtBox.Text;
    }
}

How do I 'trap' a double-click so that e.Clicks == 2?

Thank you!

John Fowler.

Re: 'Trapping' a double-click in RichTextEdit Mouse-down event

Author: Marc Rohloff TeamB
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 01:29

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On 9 Mar 2005 22:40:24 -0800, John Fowler wrote:

> I have a rich text editbox on a form and when I double-click it, I
> want its text to be copied to myString. However, the program alwaly
> 'freezes' after the FIRST click; thus e.Clicks == 1 is always true
> and I can never click fast enough for e.Clicks ever to be '2'.

> private void rtBox_MouseDown(object sender,
> system.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e) 

Why don't you use the double click event? You can't get at it in the
designer but it is easy enough to set in code:

this.richTextBox1.DoubleClick += new
System.EventHandler(this.textBox1_DoubleClick);

-- 
Marc Rohloff [TeamB]
marc rohloff -at- myrealbox -dot- com

Re: 'Trapping' a double-click in RichTextEdit Mouse-down event

Author: John
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 03:03

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Thanks very much for the advice, Marc. I'll give it a try!

John F.


"Marc Rohloff [TeamB]" <"on request"> wrote:
>On 9 Mar 2005 22:40:24 -0800, John Fowler wrote:
>
>> I have a rich text editbox on a form and when I double-click it, I
>> want its text to be copied to myString. However, the program alwaly
>> 'freezes' after the FIRST click; thus e.Clicks == 1 is always true
>> and I can never click fast enough for e.Clicks ever to be '2'.
>
>> private void rtBox_MouseDown(object sender,
>> system.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e) 
>
>Why don't you use the double click event? You can't get at it in the
>designer but it is easy enough to set in code:
>
>this.richTextBox1.DoubleClick += new
>System.EventHandler(this.textBox1_DoubleClick);
>
>-- 
>Marc Rohloff [TeamB]
>marc rohloff -at- myrealbox -dot- com

Re: 'Trapping' a double-click in RichTextEdit Mouse-down event

Author: John Fowler
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 04:13

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Hi, Marc:

I've tried this, but when I double-click within the rich text edit (called 'rtBox' in my code) it does nothing (except the default behaviour, i.e. it high-lights the text in the editbox):

Declaration:  
this.rtBox.DoubleClick += new                  System.EventHandler(this.rtBox_DoubleClick);

private void rtBox_DoubleClick(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
   string [] text_to_insert = { rtBox.Text };
}

What am I missing?

Thanks, again, for your help! it's much appreciated....

John F.



"Marc Rohloff [TeamB]" <"on request"> wrote:
>On 9 Mar 2005 22:40:24 -0800, John Fowler wrote:
>
>> I have a rich text editbox on a form and when I double-click it, I
>> want its text to be copied to myString. However, the program alwaly
>> 'freezes' after the FIRST click; thus e.Clicks == 1 is always true
>> and I can never click fast enough for e.Clicks ever to be '2'.
>
>> private void rtBox_MouseDown(object sender,
>> system.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e) 
>
>Why don't you use the double click event? You can't get at it in the
>designer but it is easy enough to set in code:
>
>this.richTextBox1.DoubleClick += new
>System.EventHandler(this.textBox1_DoubleClick);
>
>-- 
>Marc Rohloff [TeamB]
>marc rohloff -at- myrealbox -dot- com

Re: 'Trapping' a double-click in RichTextEdit Mouse-down event

Author: Marc Rohloff TeamB
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:31

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On 10 Mar 2005 20:13:49 -0800, John Fowler wrote:

> I've tried this, but when I double-click within the rich text edit
> (called 'rtBox' in my code) it does nothing (except the default
> behaviour, i.e. it high-lights the text in the editbox):

Yes you are right it seems to disappear. However I tried your original
code:

private void richTextBox1_MouseDown(object sender,
System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Clicks==2) MessageBox.Show("c");
}

And it works fine for me.

-- 
Marc Rohloff [TeamB]
marc rohloff -at- myrealbox -dot- com

Re: 'Trapping' a double-click in RichTextEdit Mouse-down event

Author: John
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:28

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Thanks, Marc:  I'll give it another try.

John F.

"Marc Rohloff [TeamB]" <"on request"> wrote:
>On 10 Mar 2005 20:13:49 -0800, John Fowler wrote:
>
>> I've tried this, but when I double-click within the rich text edit
>> (called 'rtBox' in my code) it does nothing (except the default
>> behaviour, i.e. it high-lights the text in the editbox):
>
>Yes you are right it seems to disappear. However I tried your original
>code:
>
>private void richTextBox1_MouseDown(object sender,
>System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e)
>{
>if (e.Clicks==2) MessageBox.Show("c");
>}
>
>And it works fine for me.
>
>-- 
>Marc Rohloff [TeamB]
>marc rohloff -at- myrealbox -dot- com

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