[WD26] How detect mouse activity outside the application

Hi,

how can I detect if the user use the mouse or not in windev, even the user has minimized the application or in background.

I need it for the present status (like in ms-teams) (green, yellow and red)

regards Michael

Hi Michael,

I think that you have to use calls to the Windows API which is responding to all Windows events.

Kind regards,
Guenter Predl
office@windev.at

and which ? :-)

regards Michael

Hi Michael,

from here
[docs.microsoft.com]

to
[docs.microsoft.com]

WDAPI should provide the necessary support to your programming
[docs.microsoft.com]

Kind regards,
Guenter Predl
office@windev.at

Hi Guenter,

thx.

I found also a possible solution in the french forum which detects the last activity (keyboard or mouse)

LASTINPUTINFO is Structure
cbSize is 4-byte unsigned int
dwTime is int
END


MesInformations is LASTINPUTINFO
MesInformations:cbSize =Dimension(MesInformations)

IF API("user32","GetLastInputInfo",&MesInformations) <>0 THEN
Info("The user has not had any activity on the computer since "+MesInformations:dwTime+"ms")
END

regards Michael



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/29/2021 09:43AM by Michael Drechsel.