Thanks.
What primarily meant is wondered if an app would only be able to get hold of
mouse cursor coordinates if mouse cursor was over parts of it's interface,
or would it still be able to get real coordinates, as opposed to relative
coordinates even if the mouse moved out off it's interface/window, etc.?
This is partly since another VI guy was asking me about a way to in fact
sort of track mouse cursor movement over other parts of the operating system
as such, since while you can do certain similar things using various screen
reader software packages, they're not exactly what he was looking for, and
this also makes me again wonder, related to second part of question, how
possible would it be to do something like get the app to run off somewhere
like the system tray, but still catch certain keystrokes?
Alternatively, I suppose it could just run in background, but not
hidden/minimised as such, but don't think that would help it catch certain
keystroke combinations as such.
Sorry if these are silly questions...<smile>
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Roberts" <t...@probo.com>
To: "Python-Win32 List" <python-win32@python.org>
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: [python-win32] mouse cursor coordinates
Jacob Kruger wrote:
Wondering off-hand if there's a simple/easy way to obtain mouse cursor
coordinates, and, also, how simple is it to interact with operating
system, in terms of if the mouse cursor is in fact outside the GUI as
such - if that makes sense?
win32gui.GetCursorPos will return the current mouse position in screen
coordinates.
Your second question is not clear to me. An application does not
receive mouse messages when the mouse goes outside its window, unless it
is using "mouse capture". If you click on a button control and hold the
mouse button down, then drag the mouse outside the button, you'll notice
that the button window stays depressed until you release the mouse.
That happens because the button control "captures the mouse". All mouse
messages are directed only to the button until it releases capture,
which it will do when the mouse button is released.
Beyond that, you'll have to ask a more specific question.
--
Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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