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    Moving a Static box with the mouse

    is there a way to move a static box allong with the mouse when you click? i need to have it be able to move it like i was dragging it along and placing it in another position. i am useing c++ and the windows api any help would be appriciated
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    A... stah... tic... box...?

    What do you mean? Do you mean a static control (Set up to be a box), in which case it's a window and you use MoveWindow inside your main window's WindowProc, for the WM_MOUSEMOVE message (The wParam or lParam gives you the details on the mouse, I don't know it off the top of my head, try MSDN).

    Or, if you mean a rectangle that you draw yourself (Which would be static if it isn't moving) then you'd just have a global RECT structure and update it with the mouse and it will be drawn in its new position via your (Properly written) WM_PAINT handler.

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    omg ok, thanks for the input, i was doing it correctly but in the MoveWindow function i had repaint set to 0 so nothing was happening, hahahaha thanks again
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    ok so is there an easy way to find which window holds the mouse and move only that window? would i use getcapture or what?
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    Ya.....you can use GetCapture() to determin which window holds mouse....

    One another solution to determine on which window mouse is currently moving is to use api WindowFromPoint() . If window you get from this function is same as you static box window then you can move your static box window accordingly.
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