Intercept windows mouse events

[VBNick]

Hello! I have a piece of software called X-Mouse Button Control, and its able to intercept mouse events. The website for my mouse had this instead of a driver specifically for the mouse. In the program, I am able to "Intercept" the functions of Leftclick, Rightclick, ect, globally for windows.

My problem is, that this, and any other mouse software I have tried doesn't intercept Double click =(

Is there any way to intercept doubleclicks too? I would like to program my own little utility, so that when I am gaming I can change the doubleclick's function to a single keystroke or something.

The X-Mouse software already does this with all mouse functions except the double click.

Thanks for any help!

edit-

I found this:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/audio-video/ReprogramYourMouse.aspx

but I can't make any sense of it =/

[Ancient Dragon]

A double click is nothing more than two clicks in rapid succession. Your program will get two click events, not one.

[edit]Never say never! If you are using Windows hooks then you might want to read this article, especially one of the comments at the end of the article.

[VBNick]

Are you sure? I mean, I found this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms645606%28VS.85%29.aspx(WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK)

isn't there something like this, that I can detect globally in windows, and then intercept it, and then use keybd_event() or SendInput() to send a single keystroke?

I'm gonna keep looking up these procs from the the example I found to see If I can figure out how its working.

[VBNick]

Oki!

INPUT Input;
	
			ZeroMemory(&Input, sizeof(INPUT));

			Input.type = INPUT_KEYBOARD;
			Input.ki.dwFlags  = KEYEVENTF_SCANCODE;
			Input.ki.wScan = MapVirtualKey(VK_NUMPAD0, 0);
			SendInput(1, &Input, sizeof(INPUT));
			
			ZeroMemory(&Input, sizeof(INPUT));

			Input.type = INPUT_KEYBOARD;
			Input.ki.dwFlags  = KEYEVENTF_SCANCODE | KEYEVENTF_KEYUP;
			Input.ki.wScan = MapVirtualKey(VK_NUMPAD0, 0);
			SendInput(1, &Input, sizeof(INPUT));
			
			Sleep(1000);

I used the above code in a loop to successfully send global keyboard input to the OS.

Now all I have to do is intercept the double clicks somehow.

and Ancient, if I remember correctly, I asked for help a long time ago with a little 3D app I was making didn't I? I put a good deal more work into it, and actually came out with a software renderer that does clipping, texturing, and dynamic lighting at like 12FPS at 1280x800 on a 1.6Ghz cpu. I can post a few screenies or the code if your interested =D

ps: 3000polys+ too! I actually imported a mesh of a human head...pretty kewl

[VBNick]

OK! Im almost there.

I successfully hooked my own application by doing this:

hook = SetWindowsHookEx(WH_MOUSE, proc, hInstance, GetCurrentThreadId());

but I can't get it to work for all windows, and I think it's supposed to.

I tried this:
hook = SetWindowsHookEx(WH_MOUSE, proc, GetModuleHandle(NULL), 0);

but it fails =(

is it true that I can't make this global unless it's in a DLL? because I have it in a windowed program right now..

edit- from MSDN:
WH_MOUSE Thread or global

ah hah!
"All global hook functions must be in libraries"

ugh...how do you make a DLL? lolz...

[VBNick]

OK! I've done it.

This DLL will catch global doubleclick, and send a keystroke out.

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>

HHOOK hook = 0;
bool quit = false;
LRESULT CALLBACK ClickProc(int disabled, WPARAM wparam, LPARAM lparam);
HMODULE modcpy;

BOOL APIENTRY DllMain( HMODULE hModule,
                       DWORD  ul_reason_for_call,
                       LPVOID lpReserved
					 )
{
	switch (ul_reason_for_call)
	{
	case DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH:
	case DLL_THREAD_ATTACH:
	case DLL_THREAD_DETACH:
	case DLL_PROCESS_DETACH:
		break;
	}
	modcpy = hModule;
	return TRUE;
}
extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) void Install()
{
    hook = SetWindowsHookEx(WH_MOUSE, ClickProc, modcpy, 0);
    MSG msg;
	Beep(660, 100);
	if(hook != 0)  //Hook Succeeded
	{
		Beep(880, 300);
	}
	else           //Hook Failed
	{
		Beep(440, 300);
	}
	while(GetMessage(&msg,0,0,0) && (quit==false))
	{
		TranslateMessage(&msg);
		DispatchMessage(&msg);
	}
}
LRESULT CALLBACK ClickProc(int disabled, WPARAM wparam, LPARAM lparam)
{
	
	if(wparam == WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK)
	{
		Beep(110, 30);
		INPUT Input;

		ZeroMemory(&Input, sizeof(INPUT));

		Input.type = INPUT_KEYBOARD;
		Input.ki.dwFlags = KEYEVENTF_SCANCODE;
		Input.ki.wScan = MapVirtualKey(VK_NUMPAD0, 0);

		SendInput(1, &Input, sizeof(INPUT));

		ZeroMemory(&Input, sizeof(INPUT));

		Input.type = INPUT_KEYBOARD;
		Input.ki.dwFlags = KEYEVENTF_SCANCODE | KEYEVENTF_KEYUP;
		Input.ki.wScan = MapVirtualKey(VK_NUMPAD0, 0);

		SendInput(1, &Input, sizeof(INPUT));
	}
	return CallNextHookEx(hook, 0, wparam, lparam);
}

I only have one problem remaining, and that is that to send the keystroke globally, I need to have admin privilledge. It was easy before just to click "Run with administrative privilledges", but how do I do that with a DLL?!?