Capturing Global Mouse and Keyboard Events

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wbyeats - 13 Aug 2007 05:42 GMT

Hi,

I would like to enable my VC++ application to capture general mouse
and keyboard events (click, double-click, key press) that occur
outside of my application's frame (eg. clicking inside the frame of
another application). I'm quite sure this is possible, but I don't
know how to do it. Anyone have experience with this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Dinesh Venugopalan - 13 Aug 2007 07:14 GMT

Hi,

Set hooks using SetWindowsHookEx().

Hope this helps.

Dinesh Venugopalan

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wbyeats - 16 Aug 2007 00:23 GMT

Thanks, Dinesh.

That put me on the right track. Now I'm just trying to figure out
DLLs.

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David Wilkinson - 16 Aug 2007 01:11 GMT

> Thanks, Dinesh.
>
> That put me on the right track. Now I'm just trying to figure out
> DLLs.

wbyeats:

You might find this article useful.

<http://www.codeproject.com/dll/hooks.asp>

There are some other hook articles on Codeproject also.

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