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  1. Aug 27th, 2002, 08:32 PM #1
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    GetCursorPos

    MSDN makes it so confusing...how on earth do I use it?
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    POINT pnt;
    int x;
    int y;
    GetCursorPos(pnt);
    x = pnt.x;
    y=pnt.y;
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  3. Aug 27th, 2002, 09:01 PM #3
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    thanks
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  4. Aug 28th, 2002, 05:36 AM #4
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    GetCursorPos(&pnt);

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  6. Aug 28th, 2002, 08:25 AM #5
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    is there a way to see where it is on my window? I guess GetCursorPos wasn't what I was looking for
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  7. Aug 28th, 2002, 10:02 AM #6
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    You can map the screen coordinates to your window coordinates. There is a function for this.
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    GetWindowRect() is the function CB is referring to.
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  9. Aug 28th, 2002, 10:29 AM #8
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    No, I actually mean ScreenToClient
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  11. Aug 28th, 2002, 10:31 AM #9
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    And if you have strange logical coordinates you can then use DPtoLP to convert the return of ScreenToClient to your own little world.
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