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Intercept mouse_down event over DataGridView?

I've drawn a square (in the DGV_Paint sub) on top of a DataGridView control and when I click on it I don't want the underlying DataGridView to see the click event. Ideally there would be an e.handled property for mouse_down but there isn't. What I get is a cell_changed event in the DataGridView control which is causing me problems. There are some rather ugly ways around this but I am looking for something prettier.
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there is no cellchanged event in datagridview, what do you mean?

in case this helps,
Mouse events occur in the following order:

MouseEnter

MouseMove

MouseHover / MouseDown / MouseWheel

MouseUp

MouseLeave

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Sorry, I meant CurrentCellChanged event. I used that event to do stuff when the user actually wants to change cells not when the square above the DGV is clicked.
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Private Sub DataGrid1_CurrentCellChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles DataGrid1.CurrentCellChanged
        If DataGrid1.MouseButtons = MouseButtons.Left Then
            MsgBox("left mouse button pressed")
        End If
End sub