[How To] Mouse Position relative to View

I did read some threads about how to get Cursor Pos in cocos2dx, etc…

This should only work on Windows

Now heres some code for you:

void GetWindowPos(HWND hWnd, int *x, int *y)
{
    HWND hWndParent = GetParent(hWnd);
    POINT p = {0};

    MapWindowPoints(hWnd, hWndParent, &p, 1);

    (*x) = p.x;
    (*y) = p.y;
}

Needed to get exact view position (the black box)
And NOT the hole windows, with bar etc.

In your Update, or where you wanna have the position do this:

POINT point;
if(GetCursorPos(&point))
{
    int x = point.x;
    int y = point.y;

    int positionX;
    int positionY;
    GetWindowPos(CCEGLView::sharedOpenGLView()->getHWnd(), &positionX, &positionY);
    x-= positionX;
    y-= positionY;

    CCLog("Mouse Pos: %i %i", x, y);
}else{
    CCLog("Something wrong");
}

You can also save it in an CCPoint if you need,

CCPoint cursorPos = ccp(x,y);

Just add this somewhere after “y~~= positionY;”
Have fun, and you can easily make an “MouseMove” Event with that.
**PS:
Care, this is the position from origin TOP-LEFT
NOT Bottom-Left **
Bottom-Left Addition:
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y~~= CCDirector::sharedDirector()->getWinSize().height;

Care: This gives you negative values when going up. 0/0 bottom\_left

You may add this to cocos2dx wiki if you wan’t

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In version 3.0 you can use following function i wrote:

cocos2d::Point get_cursor_pos()
{
    EGLView* egl_view = Director::getInstance()->getOpenGLView();
    GLFWwindow* window = egl_view->getWindow();
    double px, py;
    glfwGetCursorPos(window, &px, &py);

    //TODO: cache window size
    int x,y;
    glfwGetWindowSize(window, &x, &y);

    return cocos2d::Point(px, y-py);
}

It is platform independent, as it uses glfw, and i also did coordinate transformation from left-top to the left-bottom, because cocos objects use the latter.

This gives error. What do i have to include . Thanks

This gives a error. No such thing as sharedOpenGLView it says for that class

you dont need to do this in the latest cocos2d-x … since onMouseMove is provided :slight_smile:

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void Control6::onMouseMove(cocos2d::EventMouse *event)
{

_cursorPosition = Vec2(event->getCursorX(),event->getCursorY());

}

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Yes, but On Mouse Move we have to be clicked down. I need track windows mouse without any clicking. This of course then is only a Windows feature of course. i suppose maybe best design my mechanism with Mouse Down as this is what all handheld devices offer only

on mouse move it doesnt have to be clicked down

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When someone wants to position nodes depending on cursor pos, for example, in init() funtion, detecting cursor pos in onMouseMove() is not the solution. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

@Winterhearted
double xpos, ypos;
glfwGetCursorPos(window, &xpos, &ypos);

to get the position