Mouse

How do you detect mouse click and send mouse clicks?
Thanks.

On your own form you use the click event.

Ah yeah, To send them use

Code:

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'Before you start this program, I suggest you save everything that wasn't saved yet.
Private Declare Sub mouse_event Lib "user32" (ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dx As Long, ByVal dy As Long, ByVal cButtons As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)
Const MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN = &H2
Const MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP = &H4
Const MOUSEEVENTF_MIDDLEDOWN = &H20
Const MOUSEEVENTF_MIDDLEUP = &H40
Const MOUSEEVENTF_MOVE = &H1
Const MOUSEEVENTF_ABSOLUTE = &H8000
Const MOUSEEVENTF_RIGHTDOWN = &H8
Const MOUSEEVENTF_RIGHTUP = &H10
Private Sub Form_Activate()
    Do
        'Simulate a mouseclick on the cursor's position
        mouse_event MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN Or MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP, 0&, 0&, cButt, dwEI
        DoEvents
    Loop
End Sub

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How do I detect a click outside of my form?

You will have to use subclassing. And as far as i know, to subclass external apps, you need to have standard dll's which cannot be created by VB

The messages you would have to subclass are: WM_LBUTTONDOWN and WM_LBUTTONUP for the left button, and WM_RBUTTONDOWN, and WM_RBUTTON up for the right button.

Another method to SEND mouse clicks is via the PostMessage API function.

Code:

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PostMessage hWnd_of_Window, WM_LBUTTONDOWN, 1, 0
PostMessage hWnd_of_Window, WM_LBUTTONUP, 1, 0

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