I have scoured the net for help with this problem of temporarily disabling mouse clicks on a VB Net form and have not been able to find a solution that works.
I'd like to prevent users form clicking on a form when i'm doing some background processing. To me it sounds simple in theory but apparently its not.
I have scoured the net for help with this problem of temporarily disabling mouse clicks on a VB Net form and have not been able to find a solution that works.
I'd like to prevent users form clicking on a form when i'm doing some background processing. To me it sounds simple in theory but apparently its not.
So I have been working on some code that is a supplement to a video game that I play (doesn't really give me an advantage, I'm against cheating) as recreational programming to get me to learn more things which apparently is working immensely.The video game is called DoTA which is a custom map in Warcraft 3.
What I am trying to do is to make a program that can manually click the skills when the user presses the key they bound to that skill. This allows for more precise skill usage as keybindings in the game change randomly which causes chaos.
I first tried using mouse_event to move, click down, click up, return back to original location. This worked, but I ran into a problem that occurred if mouse movement by the user was happening while the code was being ran. The problem mainly would cause the mouse to move off the skill before clicking or even after the mouse down event.
So then I looked into SendMessage and PostMessage but it took a while before I could fully grasp everything about the functions mostly due to many examples posted online being different from one another as far as the declarations.
I now have matched the output that happens according to Spy++ when I actually click the mouse myself with various PostMessage and SendMessages, but am still having an odd problem:
I provide the coordinates to click on say Button 1. Spy++ tells me it is clicking it properly, but I do not actually get a click. However, if I manually move my mouse over that button, even on the very corners of it, and then press the key, it clicks it (although it also seems to work on one other button in the game.) Other than that, it will not click any other button besides the one that the coordinates are over.The game does not have any child windows so it doesn't seem like I can get the handle of the actual buttons themselves.Here is what I have as test coding to figure this all out (the sleep time in between mdown and mup is because the game doesn't register if clicked too fast):
Option Explicit On
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices 'MarshalAs, Marshal
'Imports System.Reflection 'assembly
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I was thinking that if there was a way to maybe pause control from being able to move the mouse that I could just revert back to the original mouse_event code as well, but I haven't found anything that can take away control like that (actually, I wouldn't even want that posted TBH as it could be used for malicious stuff).
EDIT:The code at the bottom is just stuff I was using to match what happens when I actually click according to Spy++.
Im using Visual Basic 2008 Express..Is there a way to disable mouse click for a while in Visual Basic 2008, I mean if mouse was clicked more than 1 time in very short time to click only once? -- I need it because my mouse became like crazy one.. when I click once it may clicks twice or more.so until I buy another one, I'd like to filter click, to allow only one click and to block another clicks that were made in last second.
View 1 RepliesSo what I am trying to accomplish is running a program that constantly tracks mouse coordinates relevant to a specific process window rather than all of the screen.
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I want to add something to my project and i want to disable mouse but without a timer. I want to enable it back again with press to keyboard. Is there code to do it so?
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View 5 RepliesI have an unbound datagridview, where column #3 is a DataGridViewComboBoxColumn which is filled with some values for the user to choose.
Problem: mouse wheel.Users usually use the mouse wheel to scroll the datagridview. That is fine.However, if the focus is on a ComboboxCell, the wheel will not do the intended function (scrolling the grid), but will scroll the combo and change the cell value.
I am having lots of accidental changes because of that.
- Disable the wheel, if focus is ON DataGridViewComboBoxColumn ?
Is there a way to disable a left mouse click in a listbox without disabling the list box ?
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I know that detected keypresses globally can be done through a Keyboard hook so I assume that i am going to need some sort of Mouse Hook.
I have an application in Visual Basic Express 2008 that just has a Windows Media Player control on a blank form. In order to prevent the user from double clicking which would result in the media player full screening, I want to disable both right and left mouse clicks on the form and Windows Media Player control. Any suggestions?
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Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Public Class UserActivityHook
Public Delegate Function HookProc(ByVal nCode As Integer, ByVal wParam As Integer, ByVal lParam As IntPtr) As Integer
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I use pictureboxes on my GUI for click controls. The associated function will be executed whenever user clicks the picturebox control.
My question is that, how do I discard(not just suppress) a control click (message) for a period of time (i.e. during the function execution).
I simple just want the click messages made during the function execution discarded by VB.
I need to visually moves the cursor using keyboard keys.
1) I need to get the mouse to where the button is
2) Simulate the mouse movement to the button from wherever it is
3) and simulate a button click.
Only after i select a button i can start drawing on my form. I have a code here, when i hold the Ctrl key and press the arrow keys, the mouse will start drawing straight lines. But what happen when i need to use controls like buttons, comboboxes etc.?
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How can I get the mouse and keyboard to simulate clicks and key presses from VB.net code?
View 8 RepliesIs there anyway i can send mouse click to
Y:270 X:548
SetCursorPos(330, 288)
MouseLeftClick()
Im useing that code but it move's the cursor and i dont want that is there anyway it can click Y:270 X:548 without moving my mouse ?
how do I make a textbox that counts every single mouse click made while the application is open?
Private Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal VKey As Long) As Integer
Private Sub WebBrowser1_MouseDown(ByVal Button As Integer)
Select Case Button
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i want to create program that rec mouse move and clicks.This is my code and when i debug my program without clicking she recs a lot of right and left clicks
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hello,
i'm trying to build a application for my buddy who plays online games and has asked for a simple program to click the mouse button within his game that he plays for a certain amount of time with a certain duration between. my questions comes ( and i searched but didnt find much useful information for .net framework anyway) about how to detect a combination of keystrokes to start an action and further more to send a click event to the game that should be main focus. i'd also appreciate any tutorials on sending information to other forms controls etc.
thank you for any help
I would like to get 3 point coordinates on mouse clicks and get them display in the text boxes. I'm working with my project. An image will be loaded in a picture box and the image has 3 reference point. I need all the points coordinate to be display separately whenever user click on the points. When user click on the first point, the coordinate of the point will be display as point a, click on the second point,the coordinate will be display as point b, and click on the third point,the coordinate will be display as point c.
View 4 RepliesHow would I make my VB Program detect mouse clicks? I want the code in a timer. So if I turn the timer on, my program will detect a Mouse click and then do the rest of the Timer code. And after the timer code is done, I want it to do it again until the timer is closed. So if the timer is on, every time I click the mouse, (anywhere on screen) it will do the rest of timer code.
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Private Sub StartStopButton_MouseClick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles StartStopButton.MouseClick
Button1.Text = "Hello"
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Is it possible for me to control the mouse with vb.net?
I would like to change the position of the mouse and perform left and right clicks.
I have a process that takes 3 seconds which needs to be run when someone clicks or mouse-up on a specific date on the monthly calendar. However, I do not want the process to run as one moves from month to month by clicking on the arrow keys.
I have tried the date-change and mouse-up events and both of these fire when I move between the months.
I am new to VB.net, i did a course in it about 5 years ago, and could do simple programs, but lost most of my knowledge, because i have not used it in such a long time, now i want to do something and cant seem to get it right, i have this game that i a play online, and i have a few accounts for it, so i would like to make a account logger, wher the usernames and passwords will be saved in a text file, and then i just open the vb program, select the username and the vb program will automatically set focus to the game window (which is windowed, not full screen).
Problem is just, the game client has 4 buttons, New Account, Play Game, About and Credits, i want to get a way for the VB program to set focus to the program(bring it to front, and then move the mouse to the coordinates of the play game button, goto coordinates of the username text box, click and write the username, same for password and then move to login button coordinates and click logon, wait a sec or two and move to either character 1, 2, 3's login button and click)
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