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From: hans@pine.circa.ufl.edu (Hans van Oostrom)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Direct mouse driver access
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Date: 11 Jun 91 23:10:06 GMT
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Organization: University of Florida - Dept. of Anesthesiology
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4

I am writing a dll that contains a function to return the mouse status 
(left/right button pressed).  I don't have control over the current 
window because the dll is called from iconAuthor.  I can't process
mouse messages, becuase there might be none when I'm in my function, 
and I don't want to wait till the mouse mves or is pressed.  I found the 
function GetCursorPos that returns me the coordinates.  I could not 
find a function to get the status.  
With exehdr I noticed some functions in the mouse.drv that might 
provide me with the information that I need (e.g. INQUIRE).  Is there 
anybody out there that knows how to call that or how to get that 
information?  
I also thought of trying to call int 33H via some standard dpmi 
interface, but I'm afraid that that will give me the dos device 
driver, which might not have up-to-date information; any suggestions?

Please E-mail any suggestions to me so I don't have to dig through all 
the FidoNet stuff.

Thanks

Hans van Oostrom
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