How to detect mouse clicks outside form?

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I googled, but not found any helpfull info. Please help.
Need to do something while MLB is pressed.

Posted 6-Jan-13 23:34pm

halabella

Updated 6-Jan-13 23:44pm

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Richard MacCutchan 7-Jan-13 5:50am

If the mouse is clicked outside of your form then the message will be sent to the window that has the focus; which is what the user wants.

[no name] 7-Jan-13 5:53am

Think I need a global hook.

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CHill60 · Answer 1 · 2013-01-07T00:10:00

Sorry to just give you a google search but there is a lot of info available and the approach may depend on what device(s) you are developing for.

Try googling with this text
listening to system events c# mouse click

But for a starting point have a look at this article and it's sample code.
Processing Global Mouse and Keyboard Hooks in C#[^]