XRControl.PreviewMouseDown Event

Occurs when an end-user presses the mouse button while the mouse pointer is hovering over one of the bricks created for the control‘s representation in the report preview.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraReports.UI

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraReports.v18.2.dll

Declaration

C#

public virtual event PreviewMouseEventHandler PreviewMouseDown

VB.NET

Public Overridable Event PreviewMouseDown As PreviewMouseEventHandler

Event Data

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

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

Related GitHub Examples

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C#

Reporting_how-to-sort-report-data-in-print-preview-by-using-a-drop-down-menu-t210208/CS/dxSampleGroupSort/SortReportTableHelpers/HelpSortItem.cs#L59

cell.PreviewMouseMove += cell_PreviewMouseMove;
cell.PreviewMouseDown += cell_PreviewMouseDown;
FieldName = fieldName;

VB.NET

Reporting_how-to-sort-report-data-in-print-preview-by-using-a-drop-down-menu-t210208/VB/dxSampleGroupSort/SortReportTableHelpers/HelpSortItem.vb#L55

AddHandler cell.PreviewMouseMove, AddressOf cell_PreviewMouseMove
AddHandler cell.PreviewMouseDown, AddressOf cell_PreviewMouseDown
Me.Menu = menu