How to move mouse cursor out of your window's application with QB64 keywords

[TempodiBasic]

Hi guys and gals
Thanks for your contribute to the  thread.

@SMcNeill
Hi Stevw. I have tryed to  use only  _Dest  and _Source  without change the acreen ... and it doesnt  work because _Mousemove acts on active screen

So I have tried using Screen  in order to  change window dimensions  and then _mousemove. But each time you call Screen it resets the output and mouse moves itself in the window.

I'll get a try to use the pageactive and the pageshowed  parametwrs of Screen.

@SpriggsySpriggs
Fine suggestion _mouseclick  I  know it mow.
And I'll try it.

[SMcNeill]

I finally had a change to head home for just a few minutes today, so here's my take for this type of problem:

Code: QB64: [Select]

1. SCREEN _NEWIMAGE(500, 400, 32)
2. DO
3.     k$ = INKEY$
4.     IF k$ = " " THEN MoveDesktopMouse RND * _DESKTOPWIDTH, RND * _DESKTOPHEIGHT
5.     LOCATE 24, 1: PRINT " press space to move mouse on screen, m to quit";
6.     _LIMIT 30
7. LOOP UNTIL k$ = "m"
8.  
9. END
10.  
11. SUB MoveDesktopMouse (x AS INTEGER, y AS INTEGER)
12.  
13.     STATIC tempscreen
14.     SX = _SCREENX: SY = _SCREENY
15.     D = _DEST
16.     IF tempscreen = 0 THEN
17.         tempscreen = _NEWIMAGE(_DESKTOPWIDTH, _DESKTOPHEIGHT, 32)
18.     END IF
19.     _SCREENHIDE
20.     SCREEN tempscreen
21.     ScreenMove 0, 0
22.     _MOUSEMOVE x, y
23.     SCREEN D
24.     _SCREENSHOW
25.     _SCREENMOVE SX, SY
26.  
27. END SUB
28.  
29. SUB ScreenMove (x, y)
30.     $IF BORDERDEC = UNDEFINED THEN
31.         $LET BORDERDEC = TRUE
32.         DECLARE LIBRARY
33.             FUNCTION glutGet& (BYVAL what&)
34.         END DECLARE
35.     $END IF
36.     BorderWidth = glutGet(506)
37.     TitleBarHeight = glutGet(507)
38.     _SCREENMOVE x - BorderWidth, y - BorderWidth - TitleBarHeight
39. END SUB
40.  
41.  
42.  

I'm using just QB64 commands to move our mouse to random spots outside our window.  The screen DOES have a slight flicker to it when this happens, but I consider this a FEATURE rather than a BUG, as I'd consider it to be a way to notify the end user of such an odd action.  It's not every day where you want to toss your cursor to someplace random across the screen after all!

;)

[bplus]

@SMcNeill Works for me, don't see ever needing it but fun little challenge. :)

[TempodiBasic]

@SMcNeill
Yes Steve you got it. You have avoid the quicksand of _FULLSCREEN and it works with no issue.
Grat Job!