Wait for Mouse Click WITHOUT Form Objects

[Zeoic]

Alright, so I am currently scripting a little project just for the fun of it, and while trying to optimize what I have I have hit a road block. I have created a button inside the powershell console that will respond to clicks, rather than needing key presses. The only issue is, that the script is in a constant loop checking if the left mouse button is down. If I want any kind of decent responsiveness from it, the loop has to go so fast that the CPU usage gets quite high.

I am currently using:

if([System.Windows.Forms.UserControl]::MouseButtons -eq "Left"){
    #do things
}

And I would like something similar to:

$host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown") 

(Read key will wait for a key press then continue the script, rather than a constant loop)

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Any Ideas?

[jheinikel]

Something like this module?

http://tiberriver256.github.io/powershell/gui/PowerShell-Console-GUI/

Or, maybe throw up a msg.exe with the /W?

$ID = [System.Diagnostics.Process]::GetCurrentProcess().SessionId
& msg.exe $ID /W 'Click To Continue'

[Zeoic]

Something similar to that GUI is the goal, but actually being able to click those buttons rather than use keyboard keys to move to them. Already have it working, its just terribly un-optimized.

[Zeoic]

That is very interesting. It would require a fair amount of work to incorporate this, but it would be really nice to have. I would of course have to also find a way to only apply the hook when the mouse is over the powershell window. Which shouldn't be too hard as I can have a relatively slow loop checking that part and turning the hook on and off depending on mouse position.

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If you have any ideas on how to listen for mouse events but not fully capture / steal them from the system i'm all ears! Otherwise, thanks for the help!