Coordinate of cursor

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hi; how can i find a Coordinate of cursor and get x,y of that and set these in to two
int like i,j?

Posted 27-Dec-13 22:09pm

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Captain Price 28-Dec-13 9:24am

OS ? Framework ? Need to be more specific.

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2013-12-27T22:25:00

In pure C? No - it has no concept of a "cursor", just of an output stream, which has a position, but that is not translatable to screen coordinates (if only because the stream doesn't know what output device it is going to, so it doesn;t know it has lines, much less the "width" of those lines)

It may be possible to get the cursor position in some systems, but exactly how will be dependant on the environment, libraries used, and the compiler at the very least.

Ali-,-reza · Answer 2 · 2013-12-27T23:58:00

Solution 3

To get the cursor position you need a system call, or a library that does.
For Windows you can use the WINAPI Systemcall GetCursorPos().

You can get position of cursor like that:

C++

POINT cursorpPos
GetCursorPos(&cursorPos);

int x = (int) cursorPos.x;
int y = (int) cursorPos.y;

Posted 27-Dec-13 23:58pm

Ali-,-reza

Updated 29-Dec-13 14:59pm

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 3 · 2013-12-27T22:36:00

Solution 2

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682073(v=vs.85).aspx[^].

Posted 27-Dec-13 22:36pm

Richard MacCutchan