MouseHover/MouseLeave event on the whole entire window

Question

I have Form subclass with handlers for MouseHover and MouseLeave. When the pointer is on the background of the window, the events work fine, but when the pointer moves onto a control inside the window, it causes a MouseLeave event.

Is there anyway to have an event covering the whole window.

(.NET 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, Windows XP.)

Answer 1

When the mouse leave event is fired one option is to check for the current position of the pointer and see if it within the form area. I am not sure whether a better option is available.

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