Synergy Screenshare Program

[metacognition]

I just spent two days of my life madly trying to figure out why a "click" command wouldn't work. My program hinged on being able to click on this one control, an RaGrid in my GUI. It was only on this one computer.

I tried every trick in the book from and every combination, variation, sendmode, and method AHK has, even all the little tricks suggested in the forum. Even spent time on MSN to use PostMessage. No luck.

Turns out this computer had Synergy (free Mouse/Keyboard sharing program) running and that was somehow steeling the mouse click. I terminated "synergy_s" and "syernergy_d" processes ("show processes from all users") in taskman and the script worked.

I wonder what synergy is doing to hook the mouse at such a deep level and why it wasn't passing it forward?

Two days of my life, one line of code: "Click".

Cheers!

[joedf]

What about the ahk mouse hook?

[metacognition]

Yes, with #InstallMouseHook it still did not work until closing these processes:

Offending Processes

[joedf]

hmm i dont know ....

[lexikos]

Nitpick: Synergy is not a screen-sharing program. It does not share a screen, only the keyboard and mouse.

Any old keyboard/mouse hook like the one AutoHotkey uses could easily interfere with keyboard/mouse input, simulated or otherwise. It doesn't have to be at a lower level than AutoHotkey.

[metacognition]

Dang, you're right, I don't know why I said that. Yes, it is not a screen sharing application by any means, I knew that, believe me I did!

Okay good to know on the mouse hooks. Thanks!