intercepting mouse click

[dky1e]

Hi,

How can i interecept a mouse click outside of the application?

[MartinL]

Control.Capture property will do it... Read about Capture property in MSDN...

martin

[dky1e]

I've looked at it and it seems like it allows only to capture events with in the window of the application.

Can you provide some links?

Thanks.

[pareshgh]

actually when u click outside of the app then focus is lost isn't it...

Paresh

[pareshgh]

you could try Cursor.Position

[petru66]

I think I know what you need, but it is not going to be simple. You need something like a spy - a program that "hooks" Windows messages, grabs them before they reach their target application.

A possible answer is the article
ms-help://MS.VSCC/MS.MSDNQTR.2002OCT.1033/dnwui/html/msdn_hooks32.htm
(I put here the address from my Microsoft Visual C#.net help - it should also work for you). If I am not wrong, this article provides the source code for a dll that you may use for creating your own hook.

I used this code to make my own hook in C# - and it was not pleasant, because I had to use unsafe code. But maybe you can find a better way.

Hope this helps.

Petru

[pareshgh]

the link doesn't come up.

Paresh

[petru66]

Sorry - I did not know how to post the address of the article.

So this is its name:
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Win32 Hooks

Kyle Marsh
Microsoft Developer Network Technology Group
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It can be found in MSDN in
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Windows User Interface Technical Articles
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Maybe you can search it using some keywords.


In fact, I just copied the link that I did in the previous article, opened
a dynamic help / search session, asked for whatever ("hook", for instance),
clicked on a link in the "Search result" window, and in the "Help" toolbar that appeared, I pasted the link; and lo! there it was.

Petru

[pareshgh]

thank you .
will look in to it.