Perfecting Mousemove event for dynamically created labels

bradyboyy88

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I have created 1000s of labels at runtime and I want to add a hover effect to them. The labels are originally designed as a white background and when you hover should go light grey and when clicked go dark grey. If you are not hovered over it anymore it should go back to its original color vbWhite. I am trying to use some code previously provided by Raj below but I am having trouble getting it to work as being a label. The other issue is his code utilizes the tag option of the label and I do not want to touch the tag because I save additional information in there for a click event later on. Can this be done without using the tag?

Rich (BB code):
Option Explicit


Public WithEvents Lbl As MSForms.Label


Private Type POINTAPI
        X As Long
        Y As Long
End Type


#If  VBA7 Then
    Private Declare PtrSafe Function GetCursorPos Lib "user32" (lpPoint As POINTAPI) As Long
    Private Declare PtrSafe Sub CopyMemory Lib "kernel32" Alias "RtlMoveMemory" (Destination As Any, Source As Any, ByVal Length As LongPtr)
    #If  Win64 Then
         Private Declare PtrSafe Function AccessibleObjectFromPoint Lib "oleacc" (ByVal arg1 As LongPtr, ppacc As Any, pvarChild As Variant) As Long
    #Else 
         Private Declare PtrSafe Function AccessibleObjectFromPoint Lib "oleacc" (ByVal lX As Long, ByVal lY As Long, ppacc As IAccessible, pvarChild As Variant) As Long
    #End  If
#Else 
    Private Declare Function GetCursorPos Lib "user32" (lpPoint As POINTAPI) As Long
    Private Declare Sub CopyMemory Lib "kernel32" Alias "RtlMoveMemory" (Destination As Any, Source As Any, ByVal Length As Long)
    Private Declare Function AccessibleObjectFromPoint Lib "oleacc" (ByVal lX As Long, ByVal lY As Long, ppacc As IAccessible, pvarChild As Variant) As Long
#End  If


Private Const CHILDID_SELF = vbWhite 'White
Private Const HOVER_COLOR As Long = &H00E0E0E0&  'Light Grey
Private Const ACTIVE_COLOR As Long = &H00C0C0C0&  'Dark Grey


Private bClicked As Boolean




Private Sub Lbl_Click()


    Dim oCtl As Control
    
    If Lbl.Parent.Name = "Frame1" Then
        For Each oCtl In Lbl.Parent.Controls
            If TypeOf oCtl Is Label Then
                If oCtl.Tag <> "" Then
                    oCtl.BackColor = Val(oCtl.Tag)
                End If
            End If
        Next
    Lbl.BackColor = ACTIVE_COLOR
    bClicked = True
    End If
    
End Sub


Private Sub Lbl_MouseMove(ByVal Button As Integer, ByVal Shift As Integer, ByVal X As Single, ByVal Y As Single)
    
    Dim tCurPos As POINTAPI
    Dim oIA As IAccessible
    Dim vKid  As Variant
    
    On Error Resume Next
    With Lbl
        If .BackColor = ACTIVE_COLOR Then Exit Sub
        If .Parent.Tag = "" Then
            If .Tag = "" Then Lbl.Tag = .BackColor
            If .BackColor <> HOVER_COLOR Then .BackColor = HOVER_COLOR
            .Parent.Tag = "looping"
            Do
                GetCursorPos tCurPos
                #If  Win64 Then
                    Dim Ptr As LongPtr
                    CopyMemory Ptr, tCurPos, LenB(tCurPos)
                    Call AccessibleObjectFromPoint(Ptr, oIA, vKid)
                #Else 
                    Call AccessibleObjectFromPoint(tCurPos.X, tCurPos.Y, oIA, vKid)
                #End  If
                DoEvents
            Loop Until oIA.accName(CHILDID_SELF) <> .Caption Or bClicked
            bClicked = False
            Call OnMouseLeave(Lbl)
        End If
    End With
 
End Sub


Private Sub OnMouseLeave(ByVal Button As Label)
    
    Button.Parent.Tag = ""
    If Button.BackColor <> ACTIVE_COLOR Then
        Button.BackColor = Button.Tag
    End If
 
    'other code goes here..
End Sub
 

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Hey Logit thanks for the reply. I will say the first link is a great resource but my code does not have issues in regards to getting the mousemove event to occur. I use collections for this similar to the guy uses arrays in that link. My issue is more on the logic of doing this hover effect and leave event. Mousemove is super finicky and Raj provided the code above to get around that but I honestly have never truly understood how to do this without using tags which he uses for his underlying logic. Can you think of any other methodology?
 
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