[RESOLVED] Detect mouse movement outside form.

[arsmakman]

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.

[arsmakman]

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

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.

[PENNYSTOCK]

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.

[arsmakman]

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?

[PENNYSTOCK]

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

[kleinma]

what control are you using to play the video?

[PENNYSTOCK]

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

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

[arsmakman]

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.