ToolStrip sometimes not responding to a mouse click

Question

I have a .NET 2.0 WinForms application with a ToolStrip on my main form. Sometimes, the ToolStrip icons don\'t respond to the first mouse click, so I have to click the icon

Answer 1

I've had that in other dev environments (VB6), and it turned out to be because the first click was being absorbed by the toolbar to acquire the focus. Or, to put it another way, the toolbar wouldn't respond to a click until it had the focus. To test this, try clicking on an empty part of the toolbar before you click on the button. If you never have to click twice on the button after you've clicked on the toolbar then that might be the problem. I think they I got around it (and this was years ago, so please excuse the hack) was to programatically give the focus to the toolbar in the MouseOver event.