USER32 - SPI_GETMOUSE missing a default value.

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Peter Dons Tychsen" <donpedro at tdcadsl.dk> wrote:

> I have an app which is bailing out because it cannot get valid data
> from SPI_GETMOUSE - and indeed this reg key does not exist.
> 
> The key should be in "Control Panel\\Colors" under CURRENT_USER.

That's a wrong key name.

> There are similar values in the "Control Panel" folder in the registry.
> 
> Is there a reason this value is not initialized ?

SPI_GETMOUSE should work just fine, do you have a sample code which
doesn't work? Is the app trying to read the registry directly without
using SystemParametersInfo?

-- 
Dmitry.