How to Access Raw Mouse Data Stream

Anyone know how to access the raw mouse data stream? Is this possible in Matlab? I want to use a mouse for robotic position tracking and need to get the raw x/y displacement data.

Thanks

Scott

[Tobias]

Hey Scott

I've got exactly the same problem, I wanna use my mouse as a position tracker and don't want to use the GUI. Any updates so far, did you find a solution elsewhere?

Thx a lot Tobias

[Daniel De Becker]

Is there any update on this?

[Johannes Hirrlinger]

same prolem...

Answer 1

[Wayne Xun]

You can get the mouse position even when the pointer is outside of a gui scope with

 get(0,'PointerLocation')

This returns the x and y coordinates of the mouse. Call this command continuously for a stream of mouse position. See the documentation here