Getting mouse position in c

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How do I get the mouse position  I want it in term of screen position   I start my program I want to set to the current mouse position   Location X      Location Y        Edit  This must happen before the form is created

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You should use System Windows Forms Cursor Position   A Point that represents the cursor s position in screen coordinates

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Initialize the current cursor  Use it to get the position of X and Y  this Cursor   new Cursor Cursor Current Handle   int posX   Cursor Position X  int posY   Cursor Position Y

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internal static class CursorPosition      StructLayout LayoutKind Sequential     public struct PointInter        public int X       public int Y       public static explicit operator Point PointInter point    gt  new Point point X  point Y                  DllImport  user32 dll      public static extern bool GetCursorPos out PointInter lpPoint         For your convenience   public static Point GetCursorPosition          PointInter lpPoint       GetCursorPos out lpPoint        return  Point  lpPoint

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System Windows Forms Control MousePosition   Gets the position of the mouse cursor in screen coordinates   The Position property is identical to the Control MousePosition property

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If you don t want to reference Forms you can use interop to get the cursor position  using System Runtime InteropServices  using System Windows     Or use whatever point class you like for the implicit cast operator       lt summary gt      Struct representing a point       lt  summary gt   StructLayout LayoutKind Sequential   public struct POINT       public int X      public int Y       public static implicit operator Point POINT point                return new Point point X  point Y                 lt summary gt      Retrieves the cursor s position  in screen coordinates       lt  summary gt       lt see gt See MSDN documentation for further information  lt  see gt   DllImport  quot user32 dll quot    public static extern bool GetCursorPos out POINT lpPoint    public static Point GetCursorPosition         POINT lpPoint      GetCursorPos out lpPoint          NOTE  If you need error handling        bool success   GetCursorPos out lpPoint          if   success               return lpPoint

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To answer your specific example      your example Location X   Cursor Position X  Location Y   Cursor Position Y      sample code Console WriteLine  x      Cursor Position X     y      Cursor Position Y     Don t forget to add using System Windows Forms   and adding the reference to it  right click on references   add reference    NET tab   Systems Windows Forms   ok

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Cursor Position will get the current screen poisition of the mouse  if you are in a Control  the MousePosition property will also get the same value    To set the mouse position  you will have to use Cursor Position and give it a new Point   Cursor Position   new Point x  y     You can do this in your Main method before creating your form

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You must also have the following imports in order to import the DLL  using System Runtime InteropServices  using System Diagnostics

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To get the position look at the OnMouseMove event   The MouseEventArgs will give you the x an y positions     protected override void OnMouseMove MouseEventArgs mouseEv     To set the mouse position use the Cursor Position property   http   msdn microsoft com en-us library system windows forms cursor position aspx

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If you need to get current position in form s area got experimentally   try  Console WriteLine  quot Current mouse position in form s area is  quot          Control MousePosition X - this Location X - 8  ToString          quot x quot          Control MousePosition Y - this Location Y - 30  ToString       Although  8 and 30 integers were found by experimenting   Would be awesome if someone could explain why exactly these numbers      Also  there s another variant considering code is in Form s CodeBehind   Point cp   PointToClient Cursor Position      Getting a cursor s position according form s area Console WriteLine  quot Cursor position  X    quot    cp X    quot   Y    quot    cp Y

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