Access - MouseDown Event not triggered-CodePudding

First and foremost I would like to say that I am new to Access and please excuse me in advance if my question is silly. That said, I have created a very simple form in Access and want to display a message every time the mouse has been pressed. For that reason I added the following code attached to the "Mouse Down" event in Access:

Private Sub Form_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
    MsgBox "Click"
End Sub

However, it doesn't work no matter how many times I click my mouse. I have tried to move it to "Mouse Up" and "Mouse Move", but it seems that the mouse events cannot be triggered. That said, when I put the event to "Key Press" everything is working fine.

I would be really grateful if you can maybe guess what the cause of the problem is. Could it be that I am using a Razor mouse? It seems weird that the key press trigger was successful, but none of the mouse ones are working. Thank you in advance!

CodePudding user response：

You're likely looking for Detail_MouseDown

Form_MouseDown affects the record selector.

The entire form body is the details section, and that's affected by Details_MouseDown.

Note that, as stated earlier, records and labels have separate MouseDown events. If you want to capture all mouse clicks on a form, one approach is to have an object that handles these events (and possibly redirects them back to the form) and initialize this on Form_Load for each control. See this for some guidance, but note you unfortunately need objects for each kind of control.

CodePudding user response：

From: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/access.form.mousedown

"To cause a MouseDown event for a form to occur, press the mouse button in a blank area or record selector on the form. To cause a MouseDown event for a form section to occur, press the mouse button in a blank area of the form section."

So you need a "blank area" to click on.