How to determine if the mouse cursor is inside a control

Question

I\'m adding support for mouse wheel movement to a TScrollBox (using the FormMouseWheel procedure) and I need to determine if the mouse is inside the component.

Basically

Answer 1

I am using the same method to scroll my scrollboxes using the mouse.

This is the event handler for the MouseWheel event of the form. It will scroll horizontally if you press shift key while scrolling:

procedure TForm1.FormMouseWheel(Sender: TObject; Shift: TShiftState; WheelDelta: Integer; MousePos: TPoint; var Handled: Boolean);
var
  Msg: Cardinal;
  Code: Cardinal;
  I, ScrollLines: Integer;    
begin
  if IsCoordinateOverControl(MousePos, ScrollBox1) then
  begin
    Handled := True;
    If ssShift In Shift Then
      Msg := WM_HSCROLL
    Else
      Msg := WM_VSCROLL;

    If WheelDelta < 0 Then
      Code := SB_LINEDOWN
    Else
      Code := SB_LINEUP;

    ScrollLines := Mouse.WheelScrollLines * 3;
    for I := 1 to ScrollLines do
      ScrollBox1.Perform(Msg, Code, 0);
    ScrollBox1.Perform(Msg, SB_ENDSCROLL, 0);
  end;
end;

You can use this function to check if the screen coordinate of the mouse is over your control:

function IsCoordinateOverControl(screenCoordinate: TPoint; control: TControl): Boolean;
var
  p: TPoint;
  r: TRect;
begin
  Result := False;
  p := control.ScreenToClient(screenCoordinate);
  r := Rect(0, 0, control.Width, control.Height);
  if PtInRect(r, p) then
    Result := True;
end;