Understanding the low-level mouse and keyboard hook (win32)

Question

I\'m trying to capture global mouse and keyboard input.

LRESULT CALLBACK MouseHookProc(int nCode, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) {
  if (nCode >= 0) {
            


        

Answer 1

MouseHookProc should reside in dll, otherwise you can not capture "global" input ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms997537.aspx )

About the loop - you can modify it like this:

while(true) {
  MSG msg;
  while (PeekMessage(&msg,0,0,0,PM_REMOVE)) {
    printf("msg recvd\n");
    TranslateMessage(&msg);
    DispatchMessage(&msg);
  }
#ifdef TEST
  DoStuff();
  Sleep(50);
#endif
}