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From: AdrianH
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 12:16

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One more thing: how do I find if a key or a mouse button was pressed while
my app has no focus and|or the mouse is not over my app's window - this is
for picking the colors ( I will have a 'history' of picked colors).

Thank you in advance
Adrian


Remy Lebeau (TeamB) <gambit47@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "AdrianH" <adrianha@yahooo.com> wrote in message
> news:3e7b8189@newsgroups.borland.com...
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> > How do I find where the mouse is in screen coordinates
>
> GetCursorPos()
>
> > I need a color picker and I don't know how to pick
> > colors outside my app's window.
>
> Once you know the exact pixel location that you want, then simply use
> GetDC(0) to first get the HDC for the entire screen and then use
GetPixel()
> to retreive the color at that pixel location.
>
>
> Gambit
>
>

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