Get signal to visual studio 2008 c programe when moving optical mouse

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Hi I'm an electronic engineering student. I'm doing a project that head movement control mouse. I wrote a program to control mouse pointer from head. Now i want to disable this program when moving an optical mouse and If user will not move optical mouse in 1 min, I want to enable program of head movement control mouse again. Please help me

Posted 13-Jun-12 7:23am

sampathbc123

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Blake Miller · Answer 1 · 2012-10-10T12:55:00

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Install a low level mouse windows hook.
Watch for mouse messages. Reset a timer for each message observed.
If timer goes off, you have not seen mouse message in that time.
See SetWindowsHookEx function using WH_MOUSE_LL

Posted 10-Oct-12 12:55pm

Blake Miller