How to detect mouse movement/key press on Mac?

Need to write a VI that will detect/report mouse movement (ie. returns it's location) and any key (or key combinations) pressed. And, to send the mouse pointer to any location on screen. Using Labview 6i on Mac.

The event structure is new to LabVIEW 6.1. I could post 6.1 code but I cannot save the structure for previous and LabVIEW will not open a VI from a newer version. The best place to learn about the event structure is on the What's new in LabVIEW 6.1 page.
http://amp.ni.com/niwc/labview/lv.jsp?node=1381

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mouse1.vi ‏12 KB

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