how do you check for mouse clicks?

Awesome article. I have been looking for this for a while now.

I'm in the same boat as Greg. I need to know how to get mouse clicks.

I need to get a specific cursor point on the screen when they user clicks somewhere on the screen.

Excellent! Just what I needed.

Use System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position to get the cursor position in screen coordinates.

You could use the Math.Abs method instead of checking if the number is negative:

...
diffX = Math.Abs(defPnt.X - currX);
diffY = Math.Abs(defPnt.Y - currY);

// Add to the "pixels traveled" counter
...

if (diffX != defPnt.X | diffY != defPnt.Y)
is wrong, should be:
if (currX != defPnt.X | currY != defPnt.Y)
Otherwise it runs every time once the timer has started.

Could this be converted to a console app and have the output displayed to the console window?

Thanks.

Yes, since this does not retrieve the coordinates relative to a form, but relative to the entire desktop via GetCursorPos().

did you try low-level hooks?
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/globalhook.asp

how do you have the coordinates (X, Y) with decimal places, instead of being a integer?

The coordinates are exact integers as they relate to the number of pixels on the screen. Therefore you will never have a coordinate that is 879.31 for instance, so you don't need to retrieve the decimal places. The decimal places will always be zeros.

Can I add SetcurPos() in a similar way to change cursor position with my code?
what namespaces do i need to use?
.NET C# VS 2008

Yes, you can use SetCursorPos In a very similar way. pinvoke.net has a nice example page:

http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32/SetCursorPos.html

i need to get the cursor position depending on my C# form, not the hole screen; So i need the x and y to be 0, when i go in the left upper corner of the form, not the screen..is that posible?

I need to click button which is on another url in windows application. how can we do this ? i think by taking the co ordinates, it will be helpful ?
Please give some suggestions..

very nice job, congratulations XD

bye

can we get the mouse position without user32.dll because it does not works in patially trusted application.

timer1.Start();

to show mouse coords as it moves. Put it in Form1().

Thanks for this really helped

how do i record the mouse path and replay it?? can i store all coordinates that mouse move and replay it??

I need to get the text of icon under focus of mouse or under click in c#, what is class and method for this

I need to get the text of icon under focus of mouse or under click in c#, what is class and method for this

great code ....
very helpful ....

Thank you very much,

This is what i want, Excellent!!

Many Thank Andrew .. Works Perfect for me too..

verry good job , thx a loot :)

hi i get this one... but i want the tool tip information when any mouse event happn outside my application like click or hover events.. plz help me..

plz help me.. if my curser pointer go on any icon or any button means that name is stored in that tooltip how can i get that name to my program in c#.net ...


plz plz help me....

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