Mouse wheel event to work with hovered control

Question

In my C# 3.5 Windows Forms application, I have a few SplitContainers. There is a list control inside each (dock fill). When the focus is on one of these controls and I move mous

Answer 1

I had similar question and found this thread... so posting my belated answer for others who might find this thread. In my case, I just want the mouse wheel events to go to whatever control is under the cursor... just like right-click does (it would be bewildering if right-click went to the focus control rather than the control under the cursor... I argue the same is true for the mouse wheel, except we've gotten used to it).

Anyway, the answer is super easy. Just add a PreFilterMessage to your application and have it redirect mouse wheel events to the control under the mouse:

    public bool PreFilterMessage(ref Message m)
    {
        switch (m.Msg)
        {
            case WM_MOUSEWHEEL:   // 0x020A
            case WM_MOUSEHWHEEL:  // 0x020E
                IntPtr hControlUnderMouse = WindowFromPoint(new Point((int)m.LParam));
                if (hControlUnderMouse == m.HWnd)
                    return false; // already headed for the right control
                else
                {
                    // redirect the message to the control under the mouse
                    SendMessage(hControlUnderMouse, m.Msg, m.WParam, m.LParam);
                    return true;
                } 
             default: 
                return false; 
           } 
}