How to find the Mouse Status

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Hello,
I am working on a project, and i got stuck at a point i want to check weather my pointing device(mouse) is working or not.
I want to check it programmatically .
Thank You in Advance. :)

Posted 25-Jan-12 5:44am

theanil

Updated 25-Jan-12 10:42am

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2012-01-25T06:10:00

Solution 1

You can't, in any real way.
You can detect that there is a pointing device:

C#

SelectQuery selectQuery = new SelectQuery("Win32_PointingDevice");
ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(selectQuery);

foreach (ManagementObject pointer in searcher.Get())
    {
    Console.WriteLine(pointer.ToString());
    }

But you can't tell if it works until the user moves it, and / or clicks the buttons.

Posted 25-Jan-12 6:10am

OriginalGriff

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Lakamraju Raghuram 25-Jan-12 12:13pm

For detecting another way is the use "System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation"
Check this here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.systeminformation.mousepresent.aspx