Simulating a mouse button click in Windows

Question

I\'m writing Remote Desktop clone in C++ using QT. So far I\'m able to move the mouse cursor around fine. QT has a nice setPos function for that. However, I\'m a bit lost as

Answer 1

This is in C#, but might help you to get an idea:

[DllImport("user32.dll",CharSet=CharSet.Auto, CallingConvention=CallingConvention.StdCall)]
   public static extern void mouse_event(long dwFlags, long dx, long dy, long cButtons, long dwExtraInfo);

   private const int MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN = 0x02;
   private const int MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP = 0x04;
   private const int MOUSEEVENTF_RIGHTDOWN = 0x08;
   private const int MOUSEEVENTF_RIGHTUP = 0x10;

   public void DoMouseClick()
   {
      int X = Cursor.Position.X;
      int Y = Cursor.Position.Y;
      mouse_event(MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN | MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP, X, Y, 0, 0);
   }

Resources which might help:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646260%28VS.85%29.aspx

http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/W-P/win32/article.php/c4543/