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zacsloth
zacsloth

Reputation: 31

VB Stopwatch Controlled by Mouse

Im making a stop watch to measure how long it takes for certain weapons to empty their clip in CS:GO. I have the stopwatch programmed, but it only seems to work if im clicking within the bounds of the window. If its possible, does anyone know how to make it able to start/stop even while in another program? Ill post the code below.

Public Class Form1
Dim WithEvents timer As New Timer
Dim milliseconds As Integer

Private Sub Form1_MouseDown(sender As Object, e As MouseEventArgs) Handles MyBase.MouseDown
    Timer1.Start()
End Sub

Private Sub Form1_MouseUp(sender As Object, e As MouseEventArgs) Handles MyBase.MouseUp
    Timer1.Stop()
End Sub

Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
    totalTime.Text = 0.0
End Sub

Private Sub Timer1_Tick(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
    totalTime.Text = totalTime.Text + 0.01
End Sub
End Class

Upvotes: 0

Views: 174

Answers (1)

Derek Tomes
Derek Tomes

Reputation: 4007

The MouseDown and MouseUp events only happen when the mouse clicks within your application so you can't use them as events to track the time the mouse is held down in another application.

You may be able to do what you want using a global mouse hook or by looking at windows messages such as the Mouse Down and Mouse Up messages

Upvotes: 2

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