I want to track the cursor location relative to a control on the form. I am
aware of System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position which provides absolute cursor
position relative to the screen. With right subtractions of the form
location and the control location it is possible to get the relative cursor
location to the screen.... with one exception - form has a title bar, and
border widths which I do not know the values of. Is there a way to find out
the title bar width and border widths? preferably programmatically? thanks


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Strah @ Langan

"Strahimir Antoljak" <(E-Mail Removed)> schrieb:
>I want to track the cursor location relative to a control on the
> form. I am aware of System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position
> which provides absolute cursor position relative to the screen.
> With right subtractions of the form location and the control location
> it is possible to get the relative cursor location to the screen....

Take a look at the properties of the 'SystemInformation' class and the
form's/control's 'PointToClient' and 'PointToScreen' methods.

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

Maybe the PointToClient method can help you,
or maybe this piece of code,
place a label and a button on a form, call the label lblMouse and copy paste
the following code

<<<<<<<<code>>>>>>>>>
Private Sub Form1_MouseMove(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As _
System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles MyBase.MouseMove
lblMouse.Text = "X: " & e.X & " Y: " & e.Y
lblMouse.Refresh()
End Sub

Private Sub Button1_MouseMove(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As _
System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles Button1.MouseMove
lblMouse.Text = "X: " & e.X & " Y: " & e.Y
lblMouse.Refresh()
End Sub

<<<<<<<<<code>>>>>>>>>>

hth
Peter


"Strahimir Antoljak" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:#(E-Mail Removed)...
> I want to track the cursor location relative to a control on the form. I
am
> aware of System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position which provides absolute
cursor
> position relative to the screen. With right subtractions of the form
> location and the control location it is possible to get the relative
cursor
> location to the screen.... with one exception - form has a title bar, and
> border widths which I do not know the values of. Is there a way to find
out
> the title bar width and border widths? preferably programmatically? thanks
>
>
> --
> Strah @ Langan
>
>

Herfried,

exactly what I needed. thanks for the quick and 'to the point' replay
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Strah @ Langan

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> "Strahimir Antoljak" <(E-Mail Removed)> schrieb:
>>I want to track the cursor location relative to a control on the
>> form. I am aware of System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position
>> which provides absolute cursor position relative to the screen.
>> With right subtractions of the form location and the control location
>> it is possible to get the relative cursor location to the screen....
>
> Take a look at the properties of the 'SystemInformation' class and the
> form's/control's 'PointToClient' and 'PointToScreen' methods.
>
> --
> Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
> <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

Peter,

exactly what I needed. Thanks a bunch

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Strah @ Langan

"Peter Proost" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:eHzZ%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Maybe the PointToClient method can help you,
> or maybe this piece of code,
> place a label and a button on a form, call the label lblMouse and copy
> paste
> the following code
>
> <<<<<<<<code>>>>>>>>>
> Private Sub Form1_MouseMove(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As _
> System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles MyBase.MouseMove
> lblMouse.Text = "X: " & e.X & " Y: " & e.Y
> lblMouse.Refresh()
> End Sub
>
> Private Sub Button1_MouseMove(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As _
> System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles Button1.MouseMove
> lblMouse.Text = "X: " & e.X & " Y: " & e.Y
> lblMouse.Refresh()
> End Sub
>
> <<<<<<<<<code>>>>>>>>>>
>
> hth
> Peter
>
>
> "Strahimir Antoljak" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:#(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I want to track the cursor location relative to a control on the form. I
> am
>> aware of System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position which provides absolute
> cursor
>> position relative to the screen. With right subtractions of the form
>> location and the control location it is possible to get the relative
> cursor
>> location to the screen.... with one exception - form has a title bar, and
>> border widths which I do not know the values of. Is there a way to find
> out
>> the title bar width and border widths? preferably programmatically?
>> thanks
>>
>>
>> --
>> Strah @ Langan
>>
>>
>
>