Cursor Compass thingy...

[Keith_VB6]

Hi All,

I read several posts about people asking how to get the cursor’s position. So, I wondered if I could create a program that would draw an arrow pointing towards the cursor. ( Sort of like a compass. )

Well, after a bit of sorting thru old projects and searching the web for a little help with the math, I made a neat and useless program. “Cursor Compass” Just one of those “I made it just to see if I could” things.

Attached is a zip with the VB 6 project files.

I decided to post it to get some feedback, but I also think that it could help people who are new to VB.

It uses the following API Functions.

GetCursorPos(...) and GetWindowRect(...)

It also has code to find the following:

The distance between 2 points and the angle based on 2 points

Let me know what you think.

[krckoorascic]

haven't looked at your code but:

... the angle based on 2 points

you need at least three points to define an angle....

[Keith_VB6]

I don't know a lot about complex math. But what it does is calculate the angle or direction of a line based on 2 points or vectors. I may have phrased it incorrectly.

IE. if the "arrow" is pointing up, that would be 90 degrees. I don't know the proper term for what it does. But I still like it.