How to detect the mouse wheel?

Question

I need to detect if the user is scrolling down the mouse scroll.

I tried with the GetKeyState, but it seems that there is no way to pass as parameter the scrolling of the mouse scroll.

I also found that, but I couldn’t figure out how to use it in C#.

Code:

if (/* Aqui eu devo checar se o usuário está rolando o scroll */)
{
    Stopwatch s = new Stopwatch();
    s.Start();
    while (s.Elapsed < TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(300))
    {
        //Irrelevante
    }
    s.Stop();
}

I also found that, but I have no idea how to use in a console application.

Answer 1

There are some ways.

1. Call Readconsoleinput you will receive a MOUSE_WHEELED if the mouse Whell is rotated.
2. Create a Windows.Form program without the windows.form environment so you’ll have mouse properties in a console environment! [That would be my choice]

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ex windows.Form without the form, only the console.

static class Program
{
    [STAThread]
    static void Main()
    {
        Application.EnableVisualStyles();
        Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
        Application.Run(new WindowlessApplicationContext());

    }
}


internal class WindowlessApplicationContext : ApplicationContext
{
    public WindowlessApplicationContext()
    {
        try
        {
            //Your code

        }
        // you mayy add catch here
        finally
        {
            //Close process
            Environment.Exit(0);
        }
    }
}

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More information:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15856386/capturing-mouse-wheel-events-in-console-application

http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/kernel32/ReadConsoleInput.html