Cursor Postition

[sunny]

I have problem of finding the curson's position!! When the curson is not inside the program that I create!!!!

[realJSOP]

Check out the AttachThreadInput() Win32 API call. Sorry, that's the best I can provide without spending a lot of time trying it out myself.

[Philip Nicoletti]

The following code gets the current mouse position :

POINT point;
GetCursorPos(&point);

// point.x and point.y have the mouse position
// with respect to the entire screen
// NOT the application

The problem is to get this code called whenever the mouse moves. WM_MOUSEMOVE only generates messages when in the application window. The only way I have found to do it is as follows: 1) add a WM_TIMER message to your application 2) code it as follows :

void YOUR_CLASS::OnTimer(UINT nIDEvent)
{
// TODO: Add your message handler code here and/or call default

CDialog::OnTimer(nIDEvent);

POINT point;
GetCursorPos(&point);

// point.x and point.y have the mouse position
// with respect to the entire screen
// not the application

// do whatever you want with these values

3. start the timer :

SetTimer(1,200,NULL); // calls OnTimer() every 200 milliseconds