tracking mouse movements

hi,

i want to make a little program that would record my mouse movements precisely. at the moment i am using WM_MOUSEMOVE message, but it seems to skip quite alot of pixels. i would like to at this stage just record each x,y coord the mouse moves through, and maybe later actually record the speed of the mouses movement too. i use a vector and everytime a mousemove message is recieved i just pushback the current x,y value into 2 vectors.

is it the vectors that are slowing this down? any example programs anyone knows of that i can have a look at?

What i plan to do is save the mouse movements and use them to move some sprites around the screen.

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but it seems to skip quite alot of pixels

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The mouse pointer doesn't move 1 pixel at a time, if that's what you thought :).
That would mean that if you had a resolution of 1024x768, you would need a framerate at 1024 fps to move the mousepointer from the left side to the right side over 1 second, and that's a framerate you can only dream about :D.

but surely it is possible somehow??? i remember my old Amiga 500 used to be able to record your mouse movements and replay them perfectly. Any tips????

Thanks for your reply!

Have a look at GetMouseMovePointsEx() on MSDN

If you still (for some weird reason :)) want all points the mouse pointer "should" have been at, make a line between the current mouse position and the position it was at in the last frame. Then calculate every possible point in-between.