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Event for Control.

Generated when the user clicks the mouse button on a specific control. The Mouse Down? event is a filter event.

For a filter event, if you do not wire an element in the Event Filter Node that appears on the right-hand side of the event case, the default value of the element is the value output by the corresponding element in the Event Data Node on the left-hand side of the event case.

Event Data Fields

Name	Description
Source	Source of the event. 0 LabVIEW UI 1 ActiveX 2 .NET 25 User Event n Other
Type	Type of event that occurred, such as Mouse Down, Value Change, Timeout, and so on.
Time	Value of the millisecond timer when the event occurred.
CtlRef	Reference to the control on which the event occurred.
Coords	Coordinates of the mouse at the location of the mouse click at the time of the event. Coordinates are relative to the pane's origin.
Button	Value that corresponds to which mouse button the user clicked. Left mouse button is 1, right mouse button is 2. Operating systems might assign higher numbers if you have a mouse with more than two buttons. For filter events, you can modify the data returned by this event data field.
Mods	Cluster of Booleans that contain platform-independent modifiers. LabVIEW returns all platform-dependent modifiers in the PlatMods event data field. For key events, this event returns a Boolean indicating if the event occurred on the numeric keypad. For mouse events, this event returns a Boolean indicating if the event was a double-click. For both events, a Boolean is returned if the platform-independent menu key, such as <Ctrl> on Windows or <Command> on Mac OS, was pressed when the event occurred. For filter events, you can modify the data returned by this event data field.
PlatMods	Cluster of Booleans that contain platform-dependent modifiers. Specifies if platform-dependent keys, such as <Ctrl>, <Shift>, <Alt>, <Command>, and <Option> were held down when the event was triggered. For filter events, you can modify the data returned by this event data field. A key can be both a Mod and PlatMod. For example, <Ctrl> is the platform-independent menu key on Windows, but you also can use it in platform-dependent programming.
Discard?	Allows you to prevent LabVIEW from processing the event, bypassing the behavior normally triggered by that event. The default is FALSE.