I was too superficial describing the structure which is a bit more complex. This is an extract to be more clear : http://nopaste.info/26b1602de7.html fLayout is where the final views are added (i.e. the rows i was referring in the previous email). Hope that better clearify the situation. Best Regards On 1/2/15, Barrett <b.vitruvio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a BGroupView with one column, where some views are attached one per > row. > > For a number of reasons, i'm going to change the old selection/focus > mechanism previously handled by the childs, so i'm redefining > MouseDown/MouseMoved etc. in the BGroupView based (father) class. I > was expecting it to detect the mouse as the child class continue to > do, but for some reason it isn't happening. > > Is there something i'm not considering? There's not mention of it in > the HaikuBook. It looks strange as the child continue to receive the > hook as well. >