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How can I track the mouse position in windows?

I want to write a service that keeps track of when the mouse enters certain pixels on the screen. I want it to be transparent to the other operations of my computer. Basically I want to make a screen saver that is monitor independant since I have 2 lcds and don't want to burn out my 2nd one when i'm not using it.

Any ideas?

levyuk

Well oyu can get the mouse position using this code

Control.MousePosition

Tertioptus

you may have to access the win32 gdi library to catch those events

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Brothernod

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Sorry RL got busy, i'll look at this Wednesday. Don't mean to keep you hanging.

Brothernod

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Ok.... so this is totally beyond anything I've ever looked at before. How do I use it?

Brothernod

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My goal is to be able to keep track of the last time my mouse has entered my 2nd monitor so that I can turn off the monitor when the mouse hasn't entered it for say 5 minutes.

Mike Tomlinson

I can certainly modify the code to detect when the mouse has not entered the second monitor in the last five minutes...but I can't find any code that puts a second monitor into standby mode. All the posts I find say that using the SC_MONITORPOWER command puts both monitors in standby mode and there is no way to target just the second monitor...

Brothernod

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Well I figured it would be hard to put the monitors into standby mode, so what I figured I would do is create a new form and just place it over the entire pixel space of the 2nd monitor (or the first monitor). I'd color it black initially, and eventually probably add some sort of effect for pizzaz.

huji

Please help me here: https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21768447/Changing-the-message-being-sent-to-applications.html