Capturing Global Mouse and Keyboard Events

[wbyeats]

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.

 

[Dinesh Venugopalan]

Hi,

Set hooks using SetWindowsHookEx().

Hope this helps.

Dinesh Venugopalan

 

[wbyeats]

Thanks, Dinesh.

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

 

[David Wilkinson]

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.