Well, I quickly found out that a blog at www.wordpress.com can not use plugins. Argh. So, I finally broke down, decided to register a domain, and installed WordPress to it.

So, this post is really a test of whether I have correctly set up Alex Gorbatchev’s SyntaxHighlighter, but I thought I would go ahead and post something interesting as well. So, without further adieu:

Recently, I thought … “I love WPF’s RepeatButton. How can I make the System.Windows.Forms.Button into a RepeatButton?”

So here is some code to do that:

public class RepeatButton : System.Windows.Forms.Button
{
    protected override void OnMouseDown(MouseEventArgs e)
    {
        base.OnMouseDown(e);

        if (e.Button == MouseButtons.Left)
        {
            OnClick(EventArgs.Empty);
            RepeatButton.repeatButtonTimer.Tick += new EventHandler(repeatButtonTimer_Tick);
            repeatButtonTimer.Start();
        }
    }
    protected override void OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e)
    {
        this.mousingUp = true;

        base.OnMouseUp(e);

        if (e.Button == MouseButtons.Left)
        {
            repeatButtonTimer.Stop();
            RepeatButton.repeatButtonTimer.Tick -= new EventHandler(repeatButtonTimer_Tick);
        }

        this.mousingUp = false;
    }

    protected override void OnClick(EventArgs e)
    {
        if (this.mousingUp) return;

        base.OnClick(e);
    }

    private void repeatButtonTimer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        OnClick(EventArgs.Empty);
    }

    private bool mousingUp = false;

    static RepeatButton()
    {
        repeatButtonTimer.Interval = 250;
    }
    private static System.Windows.Forms.Timer repeatButtonTimer = new Timer();
}

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