Mouse outside form\Mouse invisible

How do you see the x,y cordinates outside a form and how do you make the mouse cursor invisible

Try this...

Public Type POINTAPI
x As Long
y As Long
End Type

Public Declare Function GetCursorPos Lib "user32" Alias "GetCursorPos" (lpPoint As POINTAPI) As Long

Go see MouseMove Event Post. You get more than an answer

where would i put the code that you just wrote?
in general
or a form
or a module?

anywhere you want ;-)...

you could put it as private in a form, or in a module as public to anything.

With the ShowCursor API function will be able to show/hide a mouse cursor anywhere + anytime you want it to be.

Code:

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Option Explicit
Private Declare Function ShowCursor Lib "user32" (ByVal bShow As Long) As Long

Private Sub Command1_Click()
'Hide the mouse cursor
ShowCursor False
End Sub

Private Sub Command2_Click()
'Display the mouse cursor
ShowCursor True
End Sub

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