How to detect mouse clicks?

You need to write a mouse hook if you want to intercept any mouse clicks, movement, mouse wheel clicks…etc. This is the only way AFAIK if you want to track mouse activity outside of your own application. You need to import the SetWindowsHookEx(…) function from the User32.dll file if you want to install a hook. … Read more

How can I get the mouse position in a console program?

You’ll need to use the *ConsoleInput family of methods (peek, read, etc). These operate on the console’s input buffer, which includes keyboard and mouse events. The general strategy is: wait on the console’s input buffer handle (ReadConsoleInput) determine the number of waiting events (lpNumberOfEventsRead) handle them as you see fit (i.e. MOUSE_EVENT and MOUSE_EVENT_RECORD) You’ll … Read more

How can I simulate a mouse click at a certain position on the screen?

Here’s a code that is using unmanaged functions to simulate mouse clicks : //This is a replacement for Cursor.Position in WinForms [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport(“user32.dll”)] static extern bool SetCursorPos(int x, int y); [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport(“user32.dll”)] public static extern void mouse_event(int dwFlags, int dx, int dy, int cButtons, int dwExtraInfo); public const int MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN = 0x02; public const int MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP = … Read more

Java: Move image towards mouse position

The answer will depend on what you mean by “move towards”… For example, if you want “bob” to act like a cat and chase the “mouse”, then you will need some way to continuous evaluate the current mouse position and the image position. For this I would use a Swing Timer, its simple and doesn’t … Read more

Most modern method of getting mouse position within a canvas in native JavaScript [duplicate]

This seems to work. I think this is basically what K3N said. function getRelativeMousePosition(event, target) { target = target || event.target; var rect = target.getBoundingClientRect(); return { x: event.clientX – rect.left, y: event.clientY – rect.top, } } function getStyleSize(style, propName) { return parseInt(style.getPropertyValue(propName)); } // assumes target or event.target is canvas function getCanvasRelativeMousePosition(event, target) { … Read more

onMouseMove get mouse position [duplicate]

if you can use jQuery, then this will help: <div id=”divA” style=”width:100px;height:100px;clear:both;”></div> <span></span><span></span> <script> $(“#divA”).mousemove(function(e){ var pageCoords = “( ” + e.pageX + “, ” + e.pageY + ” )”; var clientCoords = “( ” + e.clientX + “, ” + e.clientY + ” )”; $(“span:first”).text(“( e.pageX, e.pageY ) – ” + pageCoords); $(“span:last”).text(“( e.clientX, … Read more