[RESOLVED] Detect mouse movement outside form.

Hello all,

I'm creating a video player. When a video is playing fullscreen, I would like for a menu to appear when the mouse moves, but no event is triggered. The video 'covers' the form, so the form's MouseMove event is not triggered upon mouse movement.

Is there a way to trigger an event when mouse movement is detected?

If not, is there a way to get the cursor position?
Then, I could (in combination with a timer) compare the location of the cursor now and that of a few moments ago to register mouse momevent.

Thanks.

I found out how to get mouse position. It was so much simpler than expected that I completely overlooked this:

VB Code:

Dim MouseX As Integer
MouseX = CInt(Cursor.Position.X.ToString())

If some-one knows how to trigger an event on mouse movement, I would still like to know, though. Because using this in combination with a timer is not quite Feng Shui. :bigyello:

I hate the VB timmer. I'd just create a thread that just loops looking for mouse moves and then raises the event.

I've also seen buttons that are invisable that reside over other controls, but I can't seem to make this work in Vb.

I can't put controls over the video, the video covers all. I need to use another form to display a menu over the video.

By the way, don't continuous loops take up loads of CPU?

The one I used did not, however I had a ...thread.sleep(50) and ...DoEvents() in it.

what control are you using to play the video?

If the video control is in your form, you may try to capture the event in the WndProc()

VB Code:

Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As System.Windows.Forms.Message)
 
'check events......
 
mybase.WndProc(m)
 
End Sub

I use a panel control to play the video in.
I use the API-functions mciSendString and mciGetErrorString to play the video. This supports many files, but requires some hard coding.