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From: davidds@microsoft.UUCP (David D'SOUZA)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Hooking onto the mouse
Message-ID: <58756@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 90 20:44:32 GMT
References: <13430001@hpspcoi.HP.COM>
Reply-To: davidds@microsoft.UUCP (David D'Souza)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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Good question... So, why doesn't Windows have a WH_MOUSE hook?

Anyway, you have to use a WH_GETMESSAGE hook since all mouse messages
are picked up by apps at GetMessage time (and then dispatched to the
specific window procedure.)  The problem here is that you do take a bit
of a performance hit since another function call needs to occur
everytime an app does a getmessage.

--Dave


In article <13430001@hpspcoi.HP.COM> hmolotsi@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Hugh Molotsi) writes:
>Hi Windows hackers,
>
>	Does anybody know how to hook onto the Window's mouse driver so
>that an application can keep track of mouse messages in the background?
>This can be done for the keyboard using SetWindowsHook() and the WH_KEYBOARD
>hook (a la Petzold).
>
>	
>HNM: "I've fallen and I can't get up!"