Global Middle mouse button click - check if hook conflict with other program

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Alistair George - 25 Sep 2007 23:00 GMT

Hi.
Can assign global hotkeys, but I desire to have middle mouse button a
global event, which instantiates a menu. However, Firefox, and a few
other programs use the same button as well. I would like to be able to
check if the current visible form (not my program) is using this
key/button and if so, the event is not hooked by myprogram. Any pointers?
Thanks, Alistair.

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Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] - 26 Sep 2007 16:18 GMT

Alistair,

Have you considered what you do if you have software like Microsoft's
Intellimouse software installed? In that case, it usually causes you to
capture the scrollbar of the window that currently has focus, and then
allows you to move that scrollbar with the mouse.

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> Hi.
> Can assign global hotkeys, but I desire to have middle mouse button a
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> key/button and if so, the event is not hooked by myprogram. Any pointers?
> Thanks, Alistair.

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Alistair George - 26 Sep 2007 19:27 GMT

> Alistair,
>
> Have you considered what you do if you have software like Microsoft's
> Intellimouse software installed? In that case, it usually causes you to
> capture the scrollbar of the window that currently has focus, and then
> allows you to move that scrollbar with the mouse.

I hear what you are saying - worth looking at, but also the event that
happens in Firefox for instance, is that a wheel click bring us the
direction cursor, so I expect two tests would be necessary.
Cheers, Al.

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