How to distinguish the source of event from different mouses?

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I have two mouse, with global hook, I can get the mouse event of the two mouses.
But I cannot find out the source of the event.
It is not included in the MouseHookStruct.
Does any have a clue for solving such problem?
Thank a lot.

Posted 27-Aug-11 6:43am

unangel

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unangel 27-Aug-11 12:47pm

I mean I want to know which one of the mouse generated the event.

BillWoodruff 28-Aug-11 1:28am

I just have to vote this question a #5 based on the idea of "stereo mice," which seems to me ... 'wondrous' ... if not ambidextrous :)

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Philippe Mori · Answer 1 · 2011-08-27T07:26:00

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I think you have to use the MultiPoint Mouse SDK[^] to do that and only the application programmed to handle multiple mouses would be able to know which mouse was used.

Otherwise, I don't think the information is available in user mode code.

Posted 27-Aug-11 7:26am

Philippe Mori

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unangel 27-Aug-11 13:37pm

Thank you, Philippe.
Is it possible that I get it from the "System Hardware Input Queue"?