<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:245e201c45f8b$2173da30$a301280a@phx.gbl:
> Hi Herfried,
>
> Thanks for your reply. It seems to me that I did not make
> the question clear in my post. I want to know a easy way
> to tell which rectangles are clicked, not the way to pop
> up a new window. I can do it by determining my mouse
> position in the picturebox_click event if I know the
> position of the rectangles. The problem is I do not know
> the positions. I know there are labels for the rectangles
> and wonder if there is way to tell the strings by mouse
> clicking on it. These strings are generated by DrawString
> method not VB lables or textboxes. Thanks.
>
> Hugh
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >* "Hugh" <HYPERLINK
> >"mailto:anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com"anonymous@discussions.microsoft.
> >com> scripsit:
>
> >> My application has a user interface with pictureBox
>
> shown
>
> >> many rectangles. I want a window to pop up when user
> >> clicks certain rectangles (not everyone) to show
>
> detailed
>
> >> information. What is the best way to do this?
> >
>
> >\\\
> >Dim f As New FooForm()
> >f.Show()
> >///
> >
> >???
> >
> >--
> >Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
> ><URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> >.
> >
>

> My application has a user interface with pictureBox shown
> many rectangles. I want a window to pop up when user
> clicks certain rectangles (not everyone) to show detailed
> information. What is the best way to do this?

> Thanks for your reply. It seems to me that I did not make
> the question clear in my post. I want to know a easy way
> to tell which rectangles are clicked, not the way to pop
> up a new window. I can do it by determining my mouse
> position in the picturebox_click event if I know the
> position of the rectangles. The problem is I do not know
> the positions. I know there are labels for the rectangles
> and wonder if there is way to tell the strings by mouse
> clicking on it. These strings are generated by DrawString
> method not VB lables or textboxes.

>-----Original Message-----
>* <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> scripsit:
>> Thanks for your reply. It seems to me that I did not
make
>> the question clear in my post. I want to know a easy
way
>> to tell which rectangles are clicked, not the way to
pop
>> up a new window. I can do it by determining my mouse
>> position in the picturebox_click event if I know the
>> position of the rectangles. The problem is I do not
know
>> the positions. I know there are labels for the
rectangles
>> and wonder if there is way to tell the strings by mouse
>> clicking on it. These strings are generated by
DrawString
>> method not VB lables or textboxes.
>
>OK, I got it :-).
>
>The easiest way would be to store the rectangles where
strings are drawn
>in, for example, an array or a collection. Then you
determine the
>position that has been clicked ('MouseUp' event
or 'Cursor.Position' in
>the 'Click' event handler) and check for each rectangle
if the point is
>contained in the rectangle. 'Rectangle' provides
a 'Contains' method
>that will return 'True' if the point passed to the method
is contained
>in the rectangle.
>
>--
>Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
><URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
>.