MouseDown versus MouseUp?

[Dick Bowman]

Can someone explain in simple terms why I can get a callback to work on a MouseUp event but not on MouseDown?

If I use the old Dyalog GUI controls both MouseDown and MouseUp work as expected/wanted, session snippet (you can work out what's in <owdown> and <owup>)...

f←⎕new 'Form' ''
f.onMouseDown←'owdown'
f.onMouseUp←'owup'
f.Wait
ow, you pressed me
that's a relief

But if I try the exact equivalent in a WPF/XAML-defined Window only the MouseUp event fires.

I see exactly equivalent (mis)behaviour with the KeyDown and KeyUp events.

Web search turns up the gnomic "MouseDown will only be bubbled from a hittable element"; but no matter how hard I hit the mouse/key nothing happens on the way down.

[PGilbert]

Hello Dick, this is working for me:

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      ∇MouseDown[⎕]∇
[0]   MouseDown(sender event)
[1]   ⎕←'MouseDown at position: ',event.GetPosition sender

      ∇MouseUp[⎕]∇
[0]   MouseUp(sender event)
[1]   ⎕←'MouseUp at position: ',event.GetPosition sender

      ⎕USING←'System.Windows,WPF/PresentationFramework.dll'
      win ← ⎕NEW Window
      win.onMouseDown ← 'MouseDown'
      win.onMouseUp   ← 'MouseUp'
      win.Show

When you click on the Window the events MouseDown and MouseUp are fired.

[MikeHughes]

It's a well documented bug. Apparently the default handler sets the Handled property to 1.

The recommended work around is to use Preview mouse Down