So is there a way to make my Win32 application "think" that the mouse is moving over its window and making some clicks when the actual window is hidden (i mean ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_HIDE);
)?
I tried to simulate mouse moving with PostMessage
and SendMessage
but no luck so far.
int x = 0;
int y = 0;
while (true)
{
SendMessage(hwnd, WM_MOUSEMOVE, 0, MAKELPARAM(x, y));
x += 10;
y += 10;
Sleep(100);
}
Is this even possible?
Yes it's possible. This is a test hidden window:
#define UNICODE
#include <Windows.h>
#include <Strsafe.h>
#include <Windowsx.h>
LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND Hwnd, UINT Msg, WPARAM WParam, LPARAM LParam);
INT CALLBACK
WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
LPSTR lpCmdLine,
INT nCmdShow)
{
WNDCLASSEX WndClass;
ZeroMemory(&WndClass, sizeof(WNDCLASSEX));
WndClass.cbSize = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX);
WndClass.lpfnWndProc = WndProc;
WndClass.hInstance = hInstance;
WndClass.lpszClassName = L"HiddenWinClass";
if(RegisterClassEx(&WndClass))
{
HWND Hwnd;
MSG Msg;
Hwnd = CreateWindowEx(0, L"HiddenWinClass", L"Nan",
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, hInstance, NULL);
if(Hwnd)
{
UpdateWindow(Hwnd);
ShowWindow(Hwnd, SW_HIDE);
while(GetMessage(&Msg, 0, 0, 0) > 0)
{
TranslateMessage(&Msg);
DispatchMessage(&Msg);
}
}
}
return 0;
}
LRESULT CALLBACK
WndProc(HWND Hwnd,
UINT Msg,
WPARAM WParam,
LPARAM LParam)
{
TCHAR Message[255];
switch(Msg)
{
case WM_MOUSEMOVE:
StringCbPrintf(Message, sizeof(Message), L"(%d, %d)",
GET_X_LPARAM(LParam), GET_Y_LPARAM(LParam));
MessageBox(NULL, Message, L"WM_MOUSEMOVE", MB_OK);
break;
default:
return DefWindowProc(Hwnd, Msg, WParam, LParam);
}
return 0;
}
and this is your code:
#define UNICODE
#include <Windows.h>
int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
HWND Hwnd;
if((Hwnd = FindWindow(L"HiddenWinClass", L"Nan")))
{
int x, y;
for(x = y = 0 ; ; x += 10, y += 10)
{
SendMessage(Hwnd, WM_MOUSEMOVE, 0, MAKELPARAM(x, y));
Sleep(100);
}
}
return 0;
}
It works nicely.