How to Determine a Visual Element Under the Mouse Pointer
The following example demonstrates how to provide hints for the Customization Form‘s Available Items and Layout Tree View panes using the layout control’s GetHitTest method, the TTimer.OnTimer event, and the TcxHintStyleController component.
uses
// ...
Controls, cxControls, cxHint;
// ...
procedure <Form>.<Timer>Timer(Sender: TObject);
var
AHitTest: TdxCustomLayoutHitTest;
AHintPoint: TPoint;
begin
AHitTest := <dxLayoutControl>.GetHitTest(<dxLayoutControl>.ScreenToClient(GetMouseCursorPos));
case (AHitTest.HitTestCode) of
htAvailableItems:
begin
AHintPoint := GetMouseCursorPos;
<cxHintStyleController>.ShowHint(AHintPoint.X, AHintPoint.Y + 25, 'Available Items pane:', 'Create new layout elements, or change the visibility of existing elements');
end;
htTreeViewItems:
begin
AHintPoint := GetMouseCursorPos;
<cxHintStyleController>.ShowHint(AHintPoint.X, AHintPoint.Y + 25, 'Layout Tree View pane:', 'Rearrange layout elements');
end;
else
<cxHintStyleController>.HideHint;
end;
The following image shows the result of executing the code:
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