Absorb a MouseClick?

[NeuralJack]

Hi Fellers, I'm wondering if you know of an easy way to absorb a mouseclick anywhere on your screen.

 

Like when you use a screen-capture program you can usually drag the mouse and make an area on your screen to capture. Well, when it does this, it must absorb/stop the mouse click you did.

 

Please offer up some strategies if you know of any. I'm pretty much making the same kind of thing as the screen-capture would do, I want to designate an area by using a mouse drag. detecting the mouse clicks is not the issue, absorbing them so that they don't interfere with progs is.

 

Also, I want to make an outline box of the area that is being made. I'm guilty of not researching that yet, but I'm guessing i'll be using a GDI32 api function.

 

Thanks

[NeuralJack]

I think I just thought of an easier way to do everything. I'm just going to try to use a transparent form, the size of the whole screen. Then when I click it I wont have to worry about other programs accepting the mouse click.

And i've got the graphics down already, so that works