C#

mupersan wrote:

During my research I was astounded of the complexity of even creating a keyboard shortcut which involved low level programming.

1. Go to your desktop
   
2. Create a shortcut to "C:\Windows\calc.exe"
   
3. Right-click on the shortcut, select "Properties"
   
4. Type in your favorite shortcut
   
5. Click on the "OK" button
   

Bastard Programmer from Hell

Dewald wrote:

Any ideas on alternative approaches that might help me track the users' mouse clicks would also be very welcome.

Bastard Programmer from Hell

To start off; not every user uses the mouse.

BobJanova wrote:

This is true but buttons and menu items still fire 'click' events even if you select them with the keyboard (and, personally, I'd recommend you do this with any custom controls you write that have an action on click, too).

Bastard Programmer from Hell

// NativeMethods.cs

using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace ConsoleApplicationTest
{
    internal static class NativeMethods
    {
        [DllImport("User32.dll")]
        public static extern IntPtr GetForegroundWindow();

        [DllImport("User32.dll")]
        public static extern int GetWindowText(IntPtr hWnd, StringBuilder lpString, int nMaxCount);
    }
}

// Program.cs

using System;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplicationTest
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to get text");
            Console.ReadKey();
            IntPtr handle = NativeMethods.GetForegroundWindow();
            if (handle != IntPtr.Zero)
            {
                StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(255);
                NativeMethods.GetWindowText(handle, builder, builder.Capacity);
                Console.WriteLine(builder.ToString());
            }
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}