Stop losing track of the mouse after leaving the FP

[Intaris]

Here's a problem a lot of people have encountered.

You want to implement a nice UI and decide to do some fancy UI programming with mouse actions being linked to certaina ctions on the FP.  Nice and fancy until the mouse cursor leaves the bounds of the front panel.  If I have a mouse action on the FP requiring me to hold the mouse button down and I then move out of the FP and release the button, LV does NOT realise that the mouse button has been released and the code int he FP still reacts to the currently un-pressed mouse button.

This is annoying and has been around for longer than I can remember.  I recall hearing that the proper implementation is not trivial, but there must be some way around this.  Please?

Shane

[Don_Phillips]

Since LabVIEW will not handle events outside of the front panel, you would need to leverage the Windows API and hard code it.

Here is a starting point.

[Intaris]

While this may be a workaround on Windows, it makes it not portable.  It won't work on Linux or Mac.

I believe strongly this kind of functionality belongs within LabVIEW.

[Darren]

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