How to change a textbox location into the pointer location

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I need to know if there's a way to move(Change the Location) a textbox when i click somewhere on the form during runtime...i tried this on a ListView but the Textbox is appearing in another Location....
Thanks!

What I have tried:

VB

Private Sub Lv_ChkIN_MouseClick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles Lv_ChkIN.MouseClick
    txt_Drag.Location = txt_Drag.PointToScreen(New Point(e.X, e.Y))
    txt_Drag.BringToFront()
End Sub

Posted 28-Dec-17 19:00pm

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Updated 28-Dec-17 19:31pm

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-28T19:31:00

PointToScreen returns Screen based coordinates: Based on the top left corner of your monitor, not the containing form which contains the TextBox. If you set the TextBox to Screen coordinates, then it will be offset on your form by the amount that the form TLHC is offset from the screen TLHC. e.X and e.Y are already relative to the Form, and need no translation to be the "right place" for your textbox:

txt_Drag.Location = New Point(e.X, e.Y)

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Thats the first code i tried...when i used that code ,the top left corner of the listview detect as the top left corner of the form..

Ah! You want it relative to the ListView! All you need to do is offset it by the TLHC of the Event sender:

VB

Dim c As Control = TryCast(sender, Control)
txt_Drag.Location = New Point(c.Location.X + e.X, c.Location.Y + e.Y)