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I am trying to use the TMap.OnBeforeClick event to determine when the user holds the control key and clicks on the map. MapPoint documentation makes this look trivial; however, the Button, Shift, X, and Y values all return incorrect information. The value of Shift should be 2 when the control key is held during the click. On inspection Shift returns a different value every time I click on the map while holding the control key. The same thing happens with the value of Button.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem might be? I am using Delphi rather than VB. Does the event return the correct values when used with VB?

After looking at the type library I discovered that the TMap.OnBeforeClick event is passing the correct data just not in the order I expected. The problem involves calling conventions. By default VB uses a right to left convention while Delphi uses a left to right calling convention.

The parameters for the OnBeforeClick event are Button, Shift, X, Y, Cancel, respectively. In Delphi, I have to receive them in reverse order due to the change in calling convention, i.e. (Cancel, Y, X, Shift, Button).

All the parameters are Integers, so I never got an error when the parameter lists were compared at compile time.