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   mike to Dean Earley   
   Re: Track Mouse Movement when the cursor   
   13 Aug 08 10:09:11   
   
   From: spamme9@gmail.com   
      
   Dean Earley wrote:   
   > mike wrote:   
   >> A temporary solution would instruct the user not to touch the system   
   >> mouse and let the program monitor the system cursor.  Problem is that   
   >> if the cursor tries to move outside the screen area, everything grinds   
   >> to a halt.  If I could still get position data with the cursor mashed   
   >> up against the edge of the screen...that would be a temporary kludge.   
   >> But monitoring cursor position won't do it.  I'd have to monitor mouse   
   >> moves...which seems to lead me right back to rawinput.   
   >   
   > Move it to the other side when it gets to an edge?   
   >   
   Thanks for the suggestion, but that's not what I came here to ask.   
   Opportunities to KLUDGE the system abound.   
   What I asked was how to get raw mouse input in VB6 so the application   
   could act just like a REAL windows application.   
   mike   
      
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