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  1. December 20th, 2008, 04:46 AM #1
    jgabase
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    Getting External Mouse Events

    I need help with detecting mouse coordinates and clicks beyond my application. I´m using SetWindowsHookEx(WH_MOUSE... but it only detects mouse events in my program. As soon as the cursor leaves my application it stops getting mouse data.

    It would be great to have a sample of source
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  2. December 20th, 2008, 07:14 AM #2
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    Re: Getting External Mouse Events

    Read MSDN for SetWindowsHookEx(), LL or not
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  3. December 20th, 2008, 04:29 PM #3
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    Re: Getting External Mouse Events

    Couple of words for clarification.
    You are not getting Getting External Mouse Events.
    Mouse movement and button clicks events are processed by a mouse driver. Windows generates messages that are sent to an application. What you are looking for is receiving mouse messages that are sent to windows other that your application window.

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  4. December 21st, 2008, 04:28 AM #4
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    Re: Getting External Mouse Events

    Many thanks for the clarification JohnCz... is it possible to have a sample of source code? i´m a little bit n00b
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  6. December 21st, 2008, 09:48 AM #5
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    Re: Getting External Mouse Events

    You are welcome.
    Did you follow links I gave you? I think you did not, since you would find sample code already.
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  7. December 22nd, 2008, 11:23 AM #6
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    Re: Getting External Mouse Events

    many thx .. i didn´t see it.
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