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

Daniel F nanotube at gmail.com
Sun May 8 22:23:54 CEST 2005


> > 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.
> 
or even better, try using the pyHook module (which wraps
SetWindowHookEx through ctypes for you already, presenting a
convenient python interface). just google "pyhook".

-d


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