[foamy]

Hi,

I know almost nothing about programming, so I need some ideas on how to make this simple little application.

I need an app that counts mouse clicks. It needs to count them no matter what is in the foreground. A gui with "reset" "pause" and "start" buttons would be icing on the cake, but even a little shell script would do the trick.

I have all the developer tools installed, but have no clue where to begin.

Any ideas? Is there a function that detects the state of the mouse button?

ps. I want the app so that I can open an image in Photoshop, create a layer, then click on spots on the image (marking them with a brush) and counting them as I go.

[adamk]

Originally posted by foamy:
Hi,

I know almost nothing about programming, so I need some ideas on how to make this simple little application.

I need an app that counts mouse clicks. It needs to count them no matter what is in the foreground. A gui with "reset" "pause" and "start" buttons would be icing on the cake, but even a little shell script would do the trick.

I have all the developer tools installed, but have no clue where to begin.

Any ideas? Is there a function that detects the state of the mouse button?

ps. I want the app so that I can open an image in Photoshop, create a layer, then click on spots on the image (marking them with a brush) and counting them as I go.

look at NSView. im not sure what you want to do exactly with your app. but it is easy to make an app that opens an image in an NSView subclass and as part of the NSView superclass there are methods which allow you to find the location of the points within the view (the 'marking' aspect you describe). also possible to count the number of mouseclicks within the view.

with your own subclass, you wouldn't need photoshop. again, not sure if it is necessary to use photoshop. if you just need to display an image, it can be done easily.

look at the NSView subclass. there is also a section in Hillegass(sp?)'s book, that got me started. it's a good book, imo.

hope this helps some.

adam