Setting Mouse Boundries and Window Borders

[Christopher Blue]

How long should I sleep inbetween calls to ClipCursor() do you think?

[JSThePatriot]

Ah darn I guess I spoke too soon: the cursor's clipping area keeps getting reset.  I will try to fix that somehow in my program.

In the meantime, how can I use AutoIt to kill a process that doesn't have a window?  (I start my MouseTrap.exe in hidden window mode).

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

ProcessClose()

JS

[Christopher Blue]

ProcessClose()

JS

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

TY sir. I was looking for kill() or close() so no wonder I didn't find it.

[this-is-me]

I would sleep only as long as needed to keep the CPU from going haywire.

[JSThePatriot]

I would sleep only as long as needed to keep the CPU from going haywire.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

In other words use a loop to loop through it and sleep at the bottom of the loop about Sleep(10) is what I have always been told.

JS

[Christopher Blue]

Here is my finished script and C++ programs:

MouseTrapToggle.au3:

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 3)
Opt("MouseCoordMode", 0)

$rest = 2147483647
$hotkey = "{F1}"
$Trapped = 0
$MouseTrapFN = "MouseTrap.exe"
$MouseUnTrapFN = "MouseUnTrap.exe"

HotKeySet($hotkey, "ToggleTrap")

While (1)
    Sleep($rest)
WEnd

Func ToggleTrap()
    If $Trapped Then
        ProcessClose($MouseTrapFN)
        Run($MouseUnTrapFN, "", @SW_HIDE)
    Else
        Run($MouseTrapFN, "", @SW_HIDE )
    EndIf
    $Trapped = NOT $Trapped
EndFunc

MouseTrap.exe:

#include <Windows.h>

int main ()
{
    RECT rcClip;

    rcClip.left = 0;
    rcClip.top = 0;
    rcClip.right = 1024;
    rcClip.bottom = 768;

    ClipCursor(&rcClip); 

    while (1)
    {
        Sleep(5);
        ClipCursor(&rcClip);
    }

    return 0;
}

MouseUnTrap.exe:

#include <Windows.h>

int main ()
{
    RECT rcClip;

    rcClip.left = 0;
    rcClip.top = 0;
    rcClip.right = 2048;
    rcClip.bottom = 768;

    ClipCursor(&rcClip);

    return 0;
}

Edited November 6, 2004 by Christopher Blue

[Guest Py7|-|[]/\/]

Nice... What kind of hack/bot are you making for WCIII?

[Christopher Blue]

Py7|-|[]/\/:

What I posted above is what I am making. Basically it makes Warcraft III playable in windowed mode which is a great boon since I am on dual monitors and the F1 hotkey lets me swing my mouse into the second monitor and surf or do whatever while there is a lapse in gameplay.

[Guest Py7|-|[]/\/]

Thanks for clerifying that for me.

[Christopher Blue]

Here is the script to remove the borders (really really fucking cool...thanks Larry!). It then resizes the window to fit the desktop and moves it into the upper-left hand corner. It also uses a hotkey to allow quick hiding/unhiding of the window.

Window Movement and Resize.au3:

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#include <GUIConstants.au3>

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 3)

Global $GWL_STYLE = -16
$window_name = "Warcraft III"
$hidden = 0
$hotkey = "^q"
$rest = 2147483647

HotKeySet($hotkey, "ToggleWindowHide")

;Remove the window borders
$hWnd = WinGetHandle($window_name)

$OldStyle = DLLCall( "user32.dll", "long", "GetWindowLong", "hwnd", $hWnd, "int", $GWL_STYLE )
If @error Then Exit
$OldStyle = $OldStyle[0]

$NewStyle = BitAND($OldStyle,BitNOT($WS_DLGFRAME) )
$NewStyle = BitAND($NewStyle,BitNOT($WS_THICKFRAME) )
$NewStyle = BitAND($NewStyle,BitNOT($WS_BORDER) )

DLLCall( "user32.dll", "long", "SetWindowLong", "hwnd", $hWnd, "int", $GWL_STYLE, "long", $NewStyle )

; Move the Window into postion and resize it
WinMove($window_name, "", 0, 0, 1024, 768)

; Wait for hotkey input
while (1)
    Sleep ($rest)
WEnd

; Hides/Unhides window
Func ToggleWindowHide()
    If ($hidden) Then
        WinSetState ($window_name, "", @SW_SHOW)
    Else    
        WinSetState ($window_name, "", @SW_HIDE)
    EndIf
    $hidden = NOT $hidden
EndFunc

Between this script and the mouse clipping script, one can enjoy all of the advantages of full-screen mode *and* windowed mode!

Edited November 6, 2004 by Christopher Blue

[Christopher Blue]

Thanks Larry. Here is the newly simplified version of

MouseUnTrap.cpp

#include <Windows.h>

int main ()
{
    ClipCursor(NULL);

    return 0;
}