Mouse pointer creation.

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Dear sir,

I am working on Desktop Sharing. I need a way to capture mouse pointer coordinates at server side and to duplicate similar mouse at client side, this mouse pointer should be independent of client side computer local mouse actions. I know some APIs to get screen coordinates of global mouse. Please give some ideas to get this done and also give links where I can find documentation regarding this.

Awaiting for your reply.... Thanks in advance....

Anand

Posted 10-Aug-11 23:59pm

Ananda_mr

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Dear Paul Heil and vivek511,

This will help me to do in capture side. How can I create a similar cursor at remote machine within a windows with this information got at sender machine.

Anand

Posted 11-Aug-11 18:00pm

Ananda_mr

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You can use below function of C#
UINT WINAPI SendInput(
__in UINT nInputs,
__in LPINPUT pInputs,
__in int cbSize
);

Posted 15-Aug-11 19:20pm

vivek511

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Paul Heil · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-11T04:43:00

Solution 1

If you want to capture the mouse activity outside the bounds of your own application, then you need to use a hook[^]. MSDN has an overview[^] of their usage.

That will tell you when a mouse action (like a click) is performed. To know when the mouse moves, but does not perform an action, you will probably need to poll the mouse location using something like GetMouseMovePoints[^].

-PaulH

Posted 11-Aug-11 4:43am

Paul Heil

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Ananda_mr 12-Aug-11 0:02am

Dear Paul Heil,

This will help me to do in capture side. How can I create a similar cursor at remote machine within a window with this information got at sender machine.

Anand

Paul Heil 12-Aug-11 9:36am

SendInput will move the mouse cursor around the screen. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646310%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

vivek511 · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-11T04:51:00

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You can use GetMouseMovePoints[^] to find mouse location

Posted 11-Aug-11 4:51am

vivek511

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Ananda_mr 12-Aug-11 0:02am

Dear vivek511,

This will help me to do in capture side. How can I create a similar cursor at remote machine within a window with this information got at sender machine.

Anand

[no name] 16-Aug-11 1:19am

You can’t create duplicate pointer in other windows but you can use your current mouse pointer for remote control . and second thing is not clear by your side what type of information you want gather from client side because you know you have to use Java script code for controlling remote pc and java script not work on server side.