firing mouseEnter msg of an Image control which was painted

[Bernard Devlin]

And another oddity:

once a painted image control is selected, then mouseEnter is fired upon
entering the rect of the control.

Bernard

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Bernard Devlin <bdrunrev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestions.  I'm guessing I'll need to use some kind of
> proxy control (as Scott suggested) to tell me when the mouse has entered an
> image control which has been painted.
>
> I need to be able to distinguish when the mouse enters this type of image
> control rather than other types of image, and I was doing that by having a
> custom property set on such image controls. The painted area may only be 5%
> of the image, and I need to know when the control itself is under the mouse.
>
> Here's another oddity: mouseMove is not fired until the mouse enters the
> painted area of such an image control. Odder still, mouseLeave is fired
> even when the painted area is far from the rect of the image control. So,
> the firing of mouseEnter and mouseLeave are very different when an image
> control is in this state.
>
> Should this (unexpected?) behaviour of painted images be classed as a bug
> or a feature?
>
> Regards
> Bernard
>