Responding to clicks outside a window

[bayan]

Note that I do not intend to write or distribute any form of malware.

How would you make a java program respond to a click outside the window the program is running in. Im trying to write a program that keeps a tally of the number of actions I do in a game I play, mouseClicked and mousePressed dont work so how would you do it?

-Bayan-

[Norm]

Is the game program written in java? If so, you could "host" it in your java program and maybe then add some listeners to trap actions.

[bayan]

Yes the game is a browser based java game.

-Bayan-

EDIT: If browser based does not work there is an open source java based client I could use.

[Norm]

I have no idea if this will work as you want, but here is how you could "host" the game.
If the game is a application with a main(String[] args) method,
Write a program that calls that method:
Game.main(new String[] {});

Now what??? You don't have access to the games components to set listeners. But you do have the code running in your JVM.

[bayan]

Thanks norm ill try it and see if it works, ill post what happens here.

Thanks for the help :)

-Bayan-

[Norm]

Yes, I'd be interested in what you find.
Good luck.

[Norm]

More ideas. Copy the source for the classes most likely used by the Game and add your debugging/trapping code to it. Then put you version of the class in a library and prefix that library to the classpath.
I did something like that years ago when I was having trouble debugging some problem. I think I posted a description on this forum on what I did. I'll check.
http://www.java-forums.org/java-tips...-problems.html