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user517400
user517400

Reputation:

VC++ mouse events

I want to write a console program for mouse events (Only mouse scroll). How do I do it in VC++? The application will listen only to scroll events.

Description: If the user scrolls down, the Desktop window fades down, and fades-in when user scrolls up.

Here I just need to know to to listen to mouse events in console app.

Note: I am developing using win32 API, and for development environment I am using VS2010.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1044

Answers (1)

Cody Gray
Cody Gray

Reputation: 244981

I've never actually done this myself. It seems that a console application responding to mouse events almost belies its nature and intended purpose. Generally, you would only need to respond to keyboard input from a console app and leave the mouse stuff to a GUI app.

That being said, this tutorial indicates that it is in fact possible to capture these mouse events from a Win32 console application. Generally, the suggestion is to use the ReadConsoleInput function and extract the information of interest from the INPUT_RECORD structure that it fills. The only tricky thing is that the call to ReadConsoleInput is a blocking call, which means it will not return until there is an input event fired. You'll need to structure your application's code accordingly. Mouse events are covered in detail about 3/4 of the way down the page.

Upvotes: 1

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