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I am trying to track mouse movements in my code. It's easy to track mouse movements in form window but i wanted to track mouse movements outside of my from window. i mean i will minimize my from to tray and track where it is. Any idea how to track mouse movemtns outside of my form windows with sample codes or sample explanation links? I am using c# and i would like to know how. Thanks for your help.
For form windows i tried this link and it works perfectly.
What i want.
I want to get to know when user move mouse left to right or right to left and show message about warning.
I want my application as a service (actually its not so neccessary if you can help on form application it will be fair enough too) and startup with os. and track mouse movements and catch if user move his/her mouse left to right or right to left. Thats it. I hope this edit will be very specific explanation.
To do this properly, I think you will need to use global hooks. This seems nice and is C# managed code.
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I need to check if a user has left click being held anyone know how I would need to accomplish this?
I already tried messing around with System.Windows.Input but I couldn't figure it out
This is a windows forms app but I need it to work outside of the form I prefer a simpler answer
Alot of useful answers on Stack overflow.
Try this >> c# Detect mouse clicks anywhere (Inside and Outside the Form)
This should allow you to detect left clicks in or outside your program.
If you want an event for a control in your form, try the .Click event.
I am currently working on a desktop C# WPF application where the goal is to make it look and feel like a "real" Windows Store App.
I want to add an appbar that should be shown when the user swipes up from the bottom. To do this in a normal app you just position your finger outside the screen area, and swipe up.
But if I do that in a fullscreen WPF program I don't receive any TouchDown or TouchMove events - probably because the finger is already down when entering the actual screen area.
I have tried with the Manipulation framework also, but same result here. Even when I hook directly into the message queue using WndProc or other hooks I get no events at all.
The funny thing is that I can see the "touch cursor" move around the screen, so at least something in the underlying framework is notified.
Does anyone have an idea how to do this?
p.s. It is not an option for me just to use a windows store app instead, because of hardware connectivity issues ;-)
You will need to keep track of the cursor location coordinates, and see when the cursor (swipe) starts at the edge of the screen and moves in. When that triggers (with whatever trigger you want, distance covered most likely) you can fire up your Appbar.
There was a similar question asked on MSDN:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/d85dcde7-839a-44d3-9f2a-8b47b947576c/swipe-gesture-and-page-change?forum=wpf
I'm making a form application in C# and what I need is to able to capture x,y coordinates outside of the form when the user doubleclicks. I have not been able to find anything that can help me. I'm new to C# so I might be looking for the wrong thing. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
This old MSDN blog has sample code for using WH_MOUSE_LL, a low-level mouse hook that you can use to capture mouse events in Windows. Mouse hooks do not distinguish double clicks however, you will need to do that yourself. You can use SystemInformation.DoubleClickTime and a timer to determine if the click was a double click or not.
I need to create a application which is similar to those we will get when we buy a laptop. It will be visible only when the mouse pointer reaches the top of the window. So how can I able to do this using C# 4.0 ?
http://www.notebookcheck.net/uploads/pics/win2_12.jpg
this link u can see the application. I need to create such type
Any idea pls share. Thanks
I suppose there are several different ways to achieve this effect:
You can place part of the window of your application above the visible screen, so only a part of it is visible (let's say you can see only it's bottom). Then you need to handle events when mouse enters (MouseEnter) and leaves (MouseLeave) the form to move the form up and down.
You can use a background thread to call GetCursorPos method at a set interval (i.e. each 500ms) second to check where currently the mouse is. See this link for more information about it and a sample code: http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32.getcursorpos.
(If you need only to check the mouse position, you can use a timer to simplify you application.)
When you hit what's possible with C#, you can always start invoking native code - such as the windows API. Since you don't ask a specific question, I'll leave you with:
Position your app where you want it to appear and hide it.
Capture mouse position with windows api (see this SO answer)
When mouse is at screen corner / top, etc; make your app visible.
Now make sure all this works with dual screen setup, and you are done.
How to track the mouse position on the screen regardless of application.i.e. Whenever the user clicks or select something with mouse in any application, i want to display my own menu at that point itself.
Is there any way to get mouse position on the screen using c#?
To do this, you'd need to P/Invoke to user32.dll and use SetWindowsHookEx().
Have a look here:
SetWindowsHookEx (user32)
How to set a Windows hook in Visual C# .NET
That sounds like a bad idea. I'm sure you could force it with a bit of effort, but what about the other applications that may want to show their own menus when the mouse is clicked?
I have solved this issue, I used Low Level Mouse hooks and Low Level Keyboard hooks to implement the solution.
I am yet to add the Menu part of it.