System-scope hooks (I know it sounds ugly, please at least read?)

[Yonatan]

Blah. I am creating an application, and I need to move the mouse cursor and at the same time know when the mouse itself has been moved. So I figure, it would be neat if I moved the cursor with SetCursorPos and then used a system-scope WH_MOUSE hook to know when the mouse itself was moved, clicked, wheel-rolled, etc.

Only problem is, as you can already guess, you need a DLL library to use system-scope hooks. And I don't have anything which can create that. Except, oh no, anything but that, Visual C++.

I don't know that language very well, and I haven't used it in quite some time, so... Could anyone please help me with the code?

I need something like this:

Public Declare Function GetAddressOfMouseProc Lib "MySqueezyDLL" () As Long
Public Declare Function GethInstanceOfMySqueezyDLL Lib "MySqueezyDLL" () As Long

Public Declare Sub InitializeDLL Lib "MySqueezyDLL" (ByVal hAddressOfMySqueezyCallbackRoutine As Long)

Public Sub MySqueezyCallbackRoutine()
    ' This is just a callback routine that doesn't need to return anything or receive any values
    ' It's just a notification OK???
End Sub

Inside the DLL would be a cute little MouseProc that would just call MySqueezyCallbackRoutine and return the value returned by CallNextHookEx... I don't need anything fancier!

[Yonatan]

Reply! I know you have a valid and helpful answer!!!

[Frans C]

I can't help you with the C stuff, but if you only want to capture Mouse movements, you could use a journal hook. This is the only system wide hook that doesn't have to live in a C dll, so you can use it with vb.

Have a look at this post:
http://forums.vb-world.net/showthrea...threadid=15494

[Yonatan]

I knew that the two Journal Hooks didn't need to be in a DLL Library to work system-scope.
I just didn't even think for a second about them!
THANKS! THE WORLD IS SAVED!