Determining opening location of a form.

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I have a button on my form. When I click it, I want a form to be opened exactly on the location where the button is. How to achieve this? Thanks.

Posted 4-Jul-11 6:00am

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You can do it one of two ways:

0) Handle the Left Mouse button Down event, and you can then retrieve mouse position at the time of the click. Then, you can open a form at that cursor position.

1) Handle the button click event and position the for at the top/left corner of the button being clicked.

Posted 4-Jul-11 6:10am

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-04T06:11:00

In the form properties, set the StartPosition to Manual.
Then:

myForm f = new myForm();
f.Location = Cursor.Position;
f.Show();

This sets it to the current mouse position.
Or:

myForm f = new myForm();
f.Location = PointToScreen(myButton.Location);
f.Show();

This sets it to the button location - the button will be covered by the form.