DirectInput.MouseState

Original Post

Dec 20, 2004 at 10:26 PM

EDIT I found my problem, when I created my mouse input device, I make it a keyboard, not a mouse. I do have a question though. Is there a way to get the X and Y coor on the screen. Like the absolute value from the 0,0 from the windows corner. DirectInput.MouseState state = mouse.CurrentMouseState; only returns how far the mouse has moved. For example, if the mouse is in the middle of a 800 x 600 screen, it returns 400,300 as the mouse point. Or would I need to write my own method to do this? Thanks TS [Edited by - TriSwords on December 20, 2004 11:35:11 PM]

Supernat02

Dec 21, 2004 at 11:39 AM

The easiest thing to do is use Windows messaging for the x,y position of the mouse. DirectInput wasn't made with that particular purpose in mind and it can be an inaccurate mess trying to use it for x,y coordinates on the screen. :)

Good luck,
Chris

ms291052

Dec 21, 2004 at 4:38 PM

POINT p;
GetCursorPos(&p);

DWORD x = p.x;
DWORD y = p.y;

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