UserControl: How to add MouseWheel Listener?

Question

I\'m creating an UserControl that should react if the mouse is over the control and MouseWheel gets rotated.

Currently i\'m doing this as shown here:

Answer 1

having the same problem, I finally implemented a mix of both solution by @Paul_Westcott and @nr1. This is a local solution like solution of @Paul_Westcott (only applies to the winforms control that subscribes to). It is multiple monitor safe and MDI safe (overlapping by other windows within the application)

public static class MouseWheelHandlerForWinformsControl
{
    private class MouseWheelMessageFilter : IMessageFilter
    {
        [DllImport("user32.dll")]
        private static extern IntPtr WindowFromPoint(Point pt);

        private readonly Control mCtrl;
        private readonly Action mOnMouseWheel;

        public MouseWheelMessageFilter(Control ctrl, Action onMouseWheel)
        {
            mCtrl = ctrl;
            mOnMouseWheel = onMouseWheel;
        }

        public bool PreFilterMessage(ref Message m)
        {
            // handle only mouse wheel messages
            if (m.Msg != 0x20a)
                return false;

            Point mouseAbsolutePosition = new Point(m.LParam.ToInt32());
            Point mouseRelativePosition = mCtrl.PointToClient(mouseAbsolutePosition);

            IntPtr hControlUnderMouse = WindowFromPoint(mouseAbsolutePosition);
            Control controlUnderMouse = Control.FromHandle(hControlUnderMouse);

            if (controlUnderMouse != mCtrl)
                return false;

            MouseButtons buttons = GetMouseButtons(m.WParam.ToInt32());
            int delta = m.WParam.ToInt32() >> 16;

            var e = new MouseEventArgs(buttons, 0, mouseRelativePosition.X, mouseRelativePosition.Y, delta);

            mOnMouseWheel(e);

            return true;
        }

        private static MouseButtons GetMouseButtons(int wParam)
        {
            MouseButtons buttons = MouseButtons.None;

            if(HasFlag(wParam, 0x0001)) buttons |= MouseButtons.Left;
            if(HasFlag(wParam, 0x0010)) buttons |= MouseButtons.Middle;
            if(HasFlag(wParam, 0x0002)) buttons |= MouseButtons.Right;
            if(HasFlag(wParam, 0x0020)) buttons |= MouseButtons.XButton1;
            if(HasFlag(wParam, 0x0040)) buttons |= MouseButtons.XButton2;

            return buttons;
        }

        private static bool HasFlag(int input, int flag)
        {
            return (input & flag) == flag;
        }
    }

    public static void MemorySafeAdd(Control ctrl, Action onMouseWheel)
    {
        if (ctrl == null || onMouseWheel == null)
            throw new ArgumentNullException();

        var filter = new MouseWheelMessageFilter(ctrl, onMouseWheel);
        Application.AddMessageFilter(filter);
        ctrl.Disposed += (s, e) => Application.RemoveMessageFilter(filter);
    }
}

Once you have added this helper class into your solution, you subscribe a control myControl to the mouse-wheel, in one line, as following:

public void Init() {
    MouseWheelHandlerForWinformsControl.MemorySafeAdd(myControl, OnMouseWheelEvent);
}

void OnMouseWheelEvent(MouseEventArgs args) {
    // do what you need here
}