XRControl.PreviewClick Event

Occurs when the mouse button is clicked while the cursor is hovering over one of the bricks created by the XRControl for its representation in the report preview.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraReports.UI

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraReports.v24.2.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Reporting.Core

Declaration

C#

public virtual event PreviewMouseEventHandler PreviewClick

VB.NET

Public Overridable Event PreviewClick As PreviewMouseEventHandler

Event Data

The PreviewClick event's data class is PreviewMouseEventArgs. The following properties provide information specific to this event:

Property	Description
Brick	Gets a visual brick that represents this control’s contents on a report page.
MouseButton	Provides access to the value that specifies which mouse button has been clicked.
PreviewControl	Gets the control which shows the print preview of the report for this event.

The event data class exposes the following methods:

Method	Description
GetBrickScreenBounds()	Obtains the location and size of the PreviewMouseEventArgs.Brick on the screen.

Remarks

Note

The PreviewClick event fires only for Windows Forms applications.

Use this event to perform different actions when a control is clicked while the report it is located in is being previewed.

The PreviewMouseClick event is raised along with the other events listed below in the following order:

• XRControl.PreviewMouseDown
• XRControl.PreviewClick
• XRControl.PreviewMouseUp

Example

This example demonstrates how you can obtain a XRLabel‘s text in print preview, by handling its XRControl.PreviewClick or XRControl.PreviewDoubleClick events.

C#

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using DevExpress.XtraReports.UI;
// ...

private void xrLabel1_PreviewClick(object sender, PreviewMouseEventArgs e) {
    MessageBox.Show(e.Brick.Text);
}

private void xrLabel2_PreviewDoubleClick(object sender, PreviewMouseEventArgs e) {
    MessageBox.Show(e.Brick.Text);
}

VB.NET

Imports System
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports DevExpress.XtraReports.UI
' ...

Private Sub xrLabel1_PreviewClick(ByVal sender As Object, _ 
ByVal e As PreviewMouseEventArgs) Handles xrLabel1.PreviewClick
    MessageBox.Show(e.Brick.Text)
End Sub

Private Sub xrLabel2_PreviewDoubleClick(ByVal sender As Object, _ 
ByVal e As PreviewMouseEventArgs) Handles xrLabel2.PreviewDoubleClick
    MessageBox.Show(e.Brick.Text)
End Sub