Actually, thinking about it more, I'd be happy with a solution that works anywhere, as long as it's not restricted to being in a Max window. It doesn't need to be within Live.

Basically, I just need to know the mouse button state, regardless of where the mouse is.

Check out the hi object. I can't promise that it works in Live (haven't used Max4Live for a while on this computer, so I'm not sure if I have it setup right now).

Hi Roth,

Thanks for the suggestion. I thought about that, but it has a couple of its own issues:

- on Windows machines, the mouse isn't seen by [hi] (as far as I can tell) - (ideally) it should work without configuration, for any user, using any mouse or trackpad.

Hmm, I only use Windows for some development/web work when I can't use OS X or another *nix so sorry, don't have any other suggestions.