[python-win32] Click detection in Windows (was 'HookMessageFailure?')

[Mark Hammond]

> To rehash: I'm basically trying to detect clicks to a
> particular windows application.  I've tried registering a
> callback via PyCWnd.HookMessage (as in the reply quoted
> below), but it didn't seem to work at all.

HookMessage has nothing to do with a "Windows Message Hook" - it only works
when the message has its WNDPROC implemented in MFC.

> Is there any way to simply detect *all* mouse clicks in
> Windows?  I'd prefer to detect when it's clicked in the
> application, but if necessary I'm fine just trying to detect
> all of them and seeing if my desired application is the
> foreground window.
>
> Is this possible?  How would I go about doing this?

You probably want something like SetWindowsHookEx - see MSDN.  This is not
wrapped by pywin32 - you may find ctypes useful for using it.

Mark