Detecting global double clicks?

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I need to detect global (off my form and/or when my form is minimized) double clicks. I want my form to pop up when the user double clicks on another form (my program is a helper program). Then my program will disappear when the user single clicks off my form.

Posted 13-Apr-11 2:38am

seanmchughinfo

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BobJanova · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-13T03:33:00

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Your application won't normally receive notification of mouse events that happen off your window. I think you are going to have to register a mouse hook for this. For example here is the first article I found here on CP[^] for hooks in C#.

Posted 13-Apr-11 3:33am

BobJanova

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Johnny J. 13-Apr-11 9:58am

Indeed, There are plenty of articles about global hooks here on the CP, both in C# and VB...

seanmchughinfo 13-Apr-11 10:55am

Wow I can't believe I looked this over. Yep, this works perfectly. Thanks.

BobJanova 13-Apr-11 12:13pm

Welcome.

Remember that it would be very easy to make your application extremely annoying by responding to mouse events in other applications, so there is some user experience design for you to do to make your 'helper' helpful :)

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