How do I check if the user clicked with a mouse or with a pen stylus on a C# control.
For eg. If the user clicks a text box with a pen button then I want an input panel to pop up but if he clicks with a mouse then it shouldn't. So how do I check whether he was using a mouse or a pen?
Edit: Using Windows Forms not WPF
I wrote an article for MSDN that never got published, I guess because Tablet PC development fizzled out by the time I got it to them. But it described how to do this. Long story short, you'll want the GetMessageExtraInfo API. Here's the definitions:
// [DllImport( "user32.dll" )]
// private static extern uint GetMessageExtraInfo( );
uint extra = GetMessageExtraInfo();
bool isPen = ( ( extra & 0xFFFFFF00 ) == 0xFF515700 );
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