I want to get an event to my application when someone presses the Home button:
(The silvery button with an arrow pointing left is the Home Button on the HTC Smart.)
However, when I press the button, no event at all arrives to my app. If I connect the system logger, I see that the Brew MP OS itself detects something, but it does not arrive to my app.
[CORE] CoreDaemon_HandleEvent: 111
[CORE] CoreDaemon_HandleEvent: 112
Can I register with these events so the OS passes them on to me? (Or whatever it takes to detect the home button in my app.)
I suspect the [ISHELL_RegisterNotify][2] function may be what I am looking for, but I don't know how to use it. I tried:
ISHELL_RegisterNotify(piShell, AEECLSID_OF_MY_APP, AEECLSID_CORE, NMASK_SHELL_KEY |(NOTIFIER_VAL_ANY << 16));
That didn't work, neither this:
ISHELL_RegisterNotify(piShell, AEECLSID_OF_MY_APP, AEECLSID_CORE, ~0);
I kind of hoped that last one would get me all "core" events, but neither of those two made any difference at all.
The app will first receive an EVT_KEY with wParam=63620 and then immediately get the EVT_APP_SUSPEND event.
Hence, as far as I understand, the "Home Button" can not be used in any meaningful way by Brew applications for input.
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I'm currently trying to develop an application to use two mice to perform completely different actions in Windows. However, after having spent couple days on it, I'm starting to wonder if what I want to do is even possible using Windows APIs. As I'm far from being an expert in Windows APIs, I would like to get your opinions to know whether I'm going in the right direction or whether I should try to do it completely differently (maybe developing a driver ?).
Here's what I want to do : Imagine two mice are plugged in my computer. I would like to use the first one as a regular mouse, while the second one would be used to perform completely different actions. For instance, by clicking the second left mouse button, it would open a new tab in Firefox (sending a CTRL+T command to FireFox app) and when clicking the right button, it would send a CTRL+C. Then, by moving the second mouse upwards, it would zoom in, and when moving it downwards, the firefox page would zoom out (so the mouse cursor on screen would remain fix while doing that !). The idea is to recognize as well which application is currently used (which one has mouse/keyboard focus) and perform different actions depending on it. So for instance, the second mouse left click would generate a CTRL+T in FireFox, a CTRL+B in WORD and a CTRL+S in Notepad (in fact, the idea is to parameterize those actions at will). All of that while the first mouse must continue to act just as a regular mouse.
So, it's important to understand that my application will run in the background and will never, per se, interact directly with the user (no GUI as it doesn't require the user to input anything). Its purpose is just to modify the mouse inputs coming from the second mouse and send other inputs(messages) to the application currently being used.
So far, I'm using raw input. I'm able to differentiate which mouse is being used and I'm able to send messages (application specific) to other applications when an action is performed on the second mouse. I'm even able to lock the cursor on screen when the second mouse is moved (so as only the corresponding message is sent to the application of interest !). However, I'm unable to block the button messages sent by the second mouse to the app with the mouse focus. Hence, when clicking on the second mouse right button in Notepad for instance, my specific command ("aaa" for the moment as I'm just trying with letters for sake of simplicity) is sent (and displayed in the notepad window) BUT the contextual Notepad menu opens as well… (hence it's received as well a WM_RBUTTONDOWN message).
My question is then : How can I block the mouse button messages ((WM_RBUTTONDOWN, and so on…) to be received by other applications when the second mouse is used? Is it even possible ? The problem is that (in my understanding) those messages have higher priority over the WM_input messages… So when I read the WM_input message in my application and detects that the button was pressed from the second mouse, it's already too late and the WM_xBUTTONDOWN was already sent !)
I know that using the mouse hooks, I could block those but then, there is no way to differentiate the origin of the message (and of course, detecting which mouse is used is the main point of my application).
I've tried as well using DirectInput8 but it doesn't support anymore the usage of several mice (Windows specifically says to use raw input to this effect).
So, I guess that by know you've gotten that I'm quite lost and have no idea whether what I want to do it even achievable. Any help would be more than welcome.
Looking forward to reading your replies.
I was about to suggest hooks, but then I read that you looked into that already. I guess, the last resort for your problem would be to write your own driver.
After Windows installed the second mouse in it's usual way, you can go to the Device Manager and change the driver of the mouse you want to "repurpose" to your own driver.
Although, developing a driver is probably nothing one will do as a side task in a project.
I've made a simple click bot to automatically play an android game on my Windows PC. It currently identifies when certain things change on the screen then moves the mouse and clicks the correct button.
Currently I am using the following win32api functions to achieve this:
Win32api.SetCursorPos(Position)
Win32api.mouse_event(winn32con.MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN,0,0)
Win32api.mouse_event(winn32con.MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP,0,0)
These work great however when I use the bot it takes over my computer's mouse and I basically have to let it run. Is there anyway I could simulate a click without it actually using my mouse, or is there a way I could isolate the bot on one of my other screens and be able to work freely on the other?
There is a lib specific for deal with user interaction components and periferics: pyautogui
Here, is a short and easy to try documentation for performing/simulating mouse click DOWN & UP
https://pyautogui.readthedocs.org/en/latest/mouse.html#the-mousedown-and-mouseup-functions
I am working on a very big and complex application for Windows written in C++ and using MFC.
I am working on this bug, where if a user presses on a balloon tooltip, it won't close, only after a timeout.
The thing is that I got the NIN_BALLOONUSERCLICK event and managed to close the tooltip, but I can't seem to catch the event raised when the user presses on the "X" button in the upper right corner.
Can anyone help me? What event should I look for? I've spent around 3 days of searching the Internet, but no one seems to know of a way.
If you can tell me how to make the "X" close button disappear, that would be okay, too!
The reason you can't find any such event is because one does not exist. It is not possible to distinguish between the balloon being closed because the user clicked somewhere on it and the balloon being dismissed because the user clicked specifically on the close ("X") button.
More information can be found in this article on Raymond Chen's blog: Why don't notification icons get a message when the user clicks the "X" button?
Basically, the event doesn't exist to keep you from doing bad things, like annoying your users. There's absolutely no reason that you should need to do something different based on how the user dismissed the balloon notification.
Making the "X" button disappear is definitely the wrong choice. Asking for that makes it sound like you're exactly the developer that the Windows Shell team was trying to protect us from. Glad someone has our back as unsuspecting users of your application. Users like to be able to dismiss things. Usability studies have repeatedly indicate that it's extremely stressful and confusing for users when there is no "Cancel" button. You need to work within the constraints of sensible, user-friendly design.
NIN_BALLOONUSERCLICK is the right choice. The tooltip will be dismissed when the user clicks on it. The documentation explains all of the various notifications that are available in greater detail.
I try to send a mouse click event to a game application. First, i use Spy++ to find what message the application receive. I see something like : WM_MOUSEACTIVATE, WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGING, WM_ACTIVATEAPP, WM_ACTIVATE, WM_SETFOCUS, ...
i try to send the same as i see on Spy++ but it doesn't work. How to send mouse click to a game application without give it focus? . it's run in window mode. Thanks in advance.
You want WM_LMOUSEDOWN. You can always check MSDN for the documentation on which messages mean what.
The best way to automate applications and games is via SendInput. While in theory it should be possible to drive an application via WM_LUBTTONDOWN etc, many applications read the key state directly via lower level APIs (such as GetAsyncKeyState) which don't change their state to reflect the messages processed from the message queue.
Using SendInput requires actually setting the game to the foreground as the input events are synthesized at a low level and are thus delivered to the active/focused window.
I'm writing an application for Mac OS X 10.6 and later in C++. One part of the application needs to simulate mouse movement and mouse clicks. I do this currently by posting CGEvent objects using CGEventPost(kCGHIDEventTap, event);.
This works, for the most part - I can simulate mouse movement and clicks just fine, but it seems to fail in some areas. For example:
In Mozilla Firefox and Safari, I can click on all the menus, but cannot click on a link within a website. When I try, the link is highlighted, but the browser never follows the link. However, I can right-click on a link, select "open link in new tab", and everything works as expected. Solved - creating the mouse event using CGEventCreateMouseEvent(...) makes the event work within web browser.
I can click on the "Dashboard" icon to brink up the dashboard, but I cannot click on the "i" button on any of the dashboard widgets. Similarly, clicking on any of the search results from the spotlight search widget doesn't work either.
This inconsistency is along application boundaries. What might be the cause?
What you need to do to convince these applications that you have in fact generated a click is to explicitly set the value of the "click state" field on the mouse up event to 1 (it defaults to 0). The following code will do it:
CGEventSetIntegerValueField(event, kCGMouseEventClickState, 1);
It also has to be set to 1 for the mouse down, but by using CGEventCreateMouseEvent() rather than CGEventCreate() that gets done for you.
I have tested this and it works in the 'i' buttons in the dashboard and the Spotlight search results.
(As an aside, if you were simulating a double click you would need to set the click state to 2 for both the mouse down and mouse up events of the second click.)
Most menus are activated with the mouseDown event. Hyperlinks are followed after the mouseUp event. The "i" button only works when the mouse has been clicked but not a long time.
All this seem to show that you have a timing problem, try several pressed timing.
Use OSXVnc. I see they use CGPostMouseEvent() instead of CGPostEvent().
I have written how to do it in the blog post Python Mouse Click and Move Mouse on Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.x.