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gmamaladze
System-wide mouse lag while debugging
The mouse is lagging system-wide whenever I hit a breakpoint while debugging a project which uses the mouse-hook. Sometimes, the lagging disappears after a few seconds, sometimes it stays.
This renders debugging unbearable in most scenarios.
Can anyone recommend another hook package? This debug issue makes debugging so unpleasant. Otherwise it's a great library!
If you only need to hook mouse events for your application (not the whole system), I found that changing Hook.GlobalEvents() to Hook.AppEvents() solves the mouse lag issue during debugging.
Of course, that somewhat defeats the purpose of the library which can hook global events. But I still find it very useful to hook application-wide events.
Otherwise, I completely echo the comments above. Hooking global events absolutely kills the mouse while debugging, and it even lags quite a bit during normal, UI-heavy operations in your application.
I am not sure if I understand the problem correctly but in the application, I created, the mouse wasn't lagging. Feel free to try this application and let me know if mouse lags or not (in release/debug mode). I remember calling this code to ensure that the mouse doesn't lag.
The freezeups occur when your program hits a breakpoint or exception in Visual Studio. Once a breakpoint is hit, the mouse will freeze for 5+ seconds and repeats every time you step to the next line of code.
It doesn't cause any major problems during normal execution of your program.
My friend and I have implemented a thread level mouse hook that wont freeze the mouse. @cstrife1 => https://github.com/macote/Winook
I didn't have TOO much problem when it was lagging during debugging, but it was also freezing when popping up a MessageBox with buttons, so I basically unhooked kbm before the MessageBox.Show, then rehook after. It's not optimal, but it works, so just throwing that out for anyone can live with this solution.