MouseEnter event handler question

03-08-2009 10:37 PM |

In my Silverlight applet, I have a bouncing ball over an image.  The structure of the view is something like this:

    <Grid ...>

          <Image   ...      />

         <Ellipse ...   />

    </Grid>

The "bouncing ball" effect is created by animating the position of the Ellipse through a TranslationTransform. 

The applet can be viewed at

     http://cross-comp.com/silverlight2/famouscat.aspx 

 It has a problem.  I want to use MouseEnter on the Image to control the content of a TextBlock but I don't want the Ellipse to react to the MouseEnter event.  I need something like event tunneling so that MouseEnter is handled as an Image property but not as an Ellipse property. 

I think I can pull this off in WPF with a Window as top container.  But I can't make it happen in Silverlight with a UserControl top container. 

What am I doing wrong?

 Jim