MouseButtonEventArgs Class

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Provides event data for mouse button input events, for example UIElement.MouseLeftButtonDown and MouseRightButtonUp.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  System.EventArgs
    System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs
      System.Windows.Input.MouseEventArgs
        System.Windows.Input.MouseButtonEventArgs

Namespace:  System.Windows.Input
Assembly:  System.Windows (in System.Windows.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public NotInheritable Class MouseButtonEventArgs _
    Inherits MouseEventArgs
public sealed class MouseButtonEventArgs : MouseEventArgs

The MouseButtonEventArgs type exposes the following members.

Properties

  Name Description
Public property ClickCount Gets the number of times the button was clicked.
Public propertySupported by Silverlight for Windows Phone Handled Gets or sets a value that marks the routed event as handled. A true value for Handled prevents most handlers along the event route from handling the same event again.
Public propertySupported by Silverlight for Windows Phone OriginalSource Gets a reference to the object that raised the event. (Inherited from RoutedEventArgs.)
Public propertySupported by Silverlight for Windows Phone StylusDevice Gets an object that reports stylus device information, such as the collection of stylus points associated with the input. (Inherited from MouseEventArgs.)

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Methods

  Name Description
Public methodSupported by Silverlight for Windows Phone Equals(Object) Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected methodSupported by Silverlight for Windows Phone Finalize Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
Public methodSupported by Silverlight for Windows Phone GetHashCode Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
Public methodSupported by Silverlight for Windows Phone GetPosition Returns the x- and y-coordinates of the mouse pointer position, optionally evaluated against a coordinate origin of a supplied UIElement. (Inherited from MouseEventArgs.)
Public methodSupported by Silverlight for Windows Phone GetType Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected methodSupported by Silverlight for Windows Phone MemberwiseClone Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Public methodSupported by Silverlight for Windows Phone ToString Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)

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Remarks

MouseButtonEventArgs defines Handled, which is relevant for marking a mouse button event as handled. Handling the event prevents typical handlers further along the route from acting on the same event occurrence. For details on how to mark mouse events as handled, see Mouse Support.

In Silverlight, MouseButtonEventArgs does not carry information that reports which mouse button was clicked (left button or right button). If you want to know whether the mouse button was the left mouse button or right mouse button, you must use separate handlers for each event (UIElement.MouseLeftButtonDown and UIElement.MouseRightButtonDown).

Mouse events are sometimes promoted events from touch input stimulus. For more information about the concept of mouse event promotion, see Touch Input in Silverlight.

Version Information

Silverlight

Supported in: 5, 4, 3

Silverlight for Windows Phone

Supported in: Windows Phone OS 7.1, Windows Phone OS 7.0

Platforms

For a list of the operating systems and browsers that are supported by Silverlight, see Supported Operating Systems and Browsers.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.