Capturing mouse events

[fenyctis]

I would like to capture mouse events such as clicking in general, not only inside my window. I have tried the API command GetAsyncKeyState(2) (rightmouse down) but it would only work inside my own window as well.
Thanks in advance!

fenyctis

[Jellybean]

Let me have a guess: You're checking it inside an event loop using WaitWindowEvent()?

[fenyctis]

Err.. yes. Sounds like that's wrong. Should I make a thread?

[netmaestro]

I'd avoid threads if you don't need them. All you need to really do here is drop the wait from your windowevent check.

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    Event = WindowEvent() ; not WaitWindowEvent() !
    If Event
       TurnPurple
    Else
       If GetAsyncKeyState(#PB_VerySpecificKey) ;numbers alone are less readable later
          BlinkTwiceRapidly
          ClearYourThroatLoudly
       Else
          Delay (10)
       Endif
    Endif

    ; Note: Some syntax in this program will not be available until PB 4.x
      

[fenyctis]

I seem to have got it to work now. Thanks a bundle. But now I've got a 50% usage of my program. Is this because of the GetAsyncKeyState? Is there a way to prevent this?

[netmaestro]

GetAsyncKeyState takes nanoseconds. Just make sure that if you don't have an event of some description to respond to that you put a decent-size delay in the code. 10 should be about right.

[fenyctis]

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    eid.l = WindowEvent()
    If eid
      If eid = #PB_Event_CLosewindow
          quit = 1
      EndIf
    Else

      If GetAsyncKeyState_(#VK_LBUTTON)
          leftmousepressed = 1
      Else
        If leftmousepressed = 1
          TriggerMouseReleaseAndBounceAround
          leftmousepressed = 0
        EndIf
      EndIf

    EndIf

[fenyctis]

Okay.
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Got it working, thanks a bundle.