Detect if user get focus of a component by tab or by click

Question

How can I detect if the user enter into a component by tab key or by mouse click?

UPDATE 1

In fact is about a TVirtualStringTree which depending by the way is getting focused, it open an custom editor focused on one or another column.

UPDATE 2

Check-out the code below.

procedure TForm1.Tree1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  Tree: TVirtualStringTree;
  Click: THitInfo;
  HitNode: PVirtualNode;
  HitColumn: TColumnIndex;
  col: Integer;
begin
  Tree:= Sender as TVirtualStringTree;
  Tree.GetHitTestInfoAt(Mouse.CursorPos.X-Tree.ClientOrigin.X, Mouse.CursorPos.Y-Tree.ClientOrigin.Y, True, Click);

  HitNode:= Click.HitNode;
  if not Assigned(Click.HitNode) and Assigned(Tree.FocusedNode) then
    HitNode:= Tree.FocusedNode;

  HitColumn:= Click.HitColumn;

  //get first visible and editable column
  if (HitColumn <= NoColumn) or
     ((HitColumn > NoColumn) and
      (not (coVisible in Tree.Header.Columns.Items[HitColumn].Options) or
       not (coEditable in Tree.Header.Columns.Items[HitColumn].Options))) then
    if Tree.Header.Columns.Count > 0 then
      for col := 0 to Tree.Header.Columns.Count - 1 do
        if (coVisible in Tree.Header.Columns.Items[col].Options) and
           (coEditable in Tree.Header.Columns.Items[col].Options) then
          begin
            HitColumn:= col;
            Break;
          end;

  if Assigned(HitNode) and (HitColumn > NoColumn) then
    {if (Tree.IsEditing and (HitNode <> Tree.FocusedNode)) or
       ((not Tree.IsEditing) and (HitNode = Tree.FocusedNode)) then}
      Tree.EditNode(HitNode,HitColumn);
end;

procedure TForm1.Tree1Enter(Sender: TObject);
var
  Tree: TVirtualStringTree;
  Click: THitInfo;
  HitNode: PVirtualNode;
  HitColumn: TColumnIndex;
  col: Integer;
begin
  Tree:= Sender as TVirtualStringTree;

  HitNode:= Tree.FocusedNode;

  if not Assigned(Tree.FocusedNode) then
    HitNode:= Tree.GetFirstVisible;

  HitColumn:= NoColumn;

  //get first visible and editable column
  if Tree.Header.Columns.Count > 0 then
    for col := 0 to Tree.Header.Columns.Count - 1 do
      if (coVisible in Tree.Header.Columns.Items[col].Options) and
         (coEditable in Tree.Header.Columns.Items[col].Options) then
        begin
          HitColumn:= col;
          Break;
        end;

  if Assigned(HitNode) and (HitColumn > NoColumn) then
    Tree.EditNode(HitNode,HitColumn);
end;

What I would like to do is:

• to edit the first column of the focused node if the user enter by Tab key or
• to edit the corresponding hited column if enter by mouse click

If I click on component, OnEnter is triggered firstly and after that OnClick, so the problem is that edit node it gets trigged 2 times.

Answer 1

Because focus achieved by clicking would always generate a mousedown event before an onEnter event you can set an event in the mousedown saying 'gMousedown' := true then in the OnEnter event you can check if mousedown. Do not forget to reset the gMousedown to false in the onMouseUp event.