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Do you any good software that can create mouse move/click/right click heatmaps in a desktop application like a game, office suite etc.? Preferably including key detection, heatmap image saving etc. I need to evaluate GUI of an application.

I can only find software tailored for websites which is not exactly what I need and this application which is too simple.

Any ideas?

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It shouldn't be too difficult write windows form app that tracks the location of the mouse.

I assume having an height by width array and increment the long for every second the mouse is on a pixel. Maybe break the space up into regions rather than individual pixels?

You could make it more clever if you can integrate it into your app so that it knows where your windows are?

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Yes, that's definitely an option but I don't want to code something that already exists somewhere else hence the question :). Thank you for the reply nevertheless – Kraken Aug 22 '12 at 17:11

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