Maybe to hard to do?

OK so how can i get VB6 to determine where the mouse is in windows so that i can use MoveMouse to move it back to that exact spot to fire off mouse events?
How can i make it so that i can determine the exact locatation of the mouse any time i want.?
Is there a way to set it up in VB6 so that it can record the x and y coords of the mouse with a push of a button?

I want to do this in a form, click the button to start recoding then move the mouse in windows98(or higher) and when i click at the spot i want to it records those coords for me or shows them to me so i can use them to send the mouse back to that exact spot later.

I hope this example helps!

put the following code in your main module...


public Declare Function GetCursorPos Lib "user32" (lpPoint as POINTAPI) as Long

'point type returned by GetCursorPos API
public Type POINTAPI
x as Long
y as Long
End Type




then call the API in a command button like this...


'create instance of POINTAPI
Dim pt as POINTAPI
'locate the cursor
GetCursorPos pt
msgbox "Your mouse is at X=" & pt.x & " and Y=" & pt.y

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
works good but i was wondering sice i was able to modifie it a litte so it puts the x and the y in feilds for me is there a way to get it to get the coords outside of the form?

When i did it your way it got the coords right where the button was and when i do it my way the only way i can get it is inside the form.

Can you assist me again?

See if this is closer to what you are looking for...

create a form with a timer control (Timer1) on it and two labels (Label1, Label2). put the API declaration and the POINTAPI Type definition in a module in the project just as before. set the timer's invertval property to 10 (this makes it run its event 100 times per second). inside the timer event, add the following code:


'create instance of POINTAPI
Dim pt as POINTAPI
'locate the cursor
GetCursorPos pt

Label1.Caption = "X = " & pt.X
Label2.Caption = "Y = " & pt.Y




I haven't tested this but i think it will work okay. Let me know if ya need anything more. Good luck!

Jeff

in you module pu this code

Option Explicit

Type POINTAPI
X As Long
Y As Long
End Type
Type RECT
Left As Long
Top As Long
Right As Long
Bottom As Long
End Type

Private Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal vKey As Long) As Integer
Private Declare Function GetSystemMetrics Lib "user32" (ByVal nIndex As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function ShowCursor Lib "user32" (ByVal bShow As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function SetCursorPos Lib "user32" (ByVal X As Long, ByVal Y As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetCursorPos Lib "user32" (lpPoint As POINTAPI) As Long
Private Declare Function ScreenToClient Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long, lpPoint As POINTAPI) As Long
Private Declare Function ClientToScreen Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long, lpPoint As POINTAPI) As Long
Private Declare Function ClipCursor Lib "user32" (lpRect As Any) As Long
Private Declare Function GetClientRect Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long, lpRect As RECT) As Long
Private Declare Function SetCapture Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function ReleaseCapture Lib "user32" () As Long
Private Declare Function GetCapture Lib "user32" () As Long
Private Declare Function WindowFromPoint Lib "user32" (ByVal xPoint As Long, ByVal yPoint As Long) As Long

' Return the state of the Left button.

Function LeftButton() As Boolean
LeftButton = (GetAsyncKeyState(vbKeyLButton) And &H8000)
End Function

' Return the state of the Right button.

Function RightButton() As Boolean
RightButton = (GetAsyncKeyState(vbKeyRButton) And &H8000)
End Function

' Return the state of the Middle button.

Function MiddleButton() As Boolean
MiddleButton = (GetAsyncKeyState(vbKeyMButton) And &H8000)
End Function

' Return the state of the mouse buttons as a bit-coded value.
' (same format as the Button argument of a Mousexxxx event procedure.)

Function MouseButton() As Integer
If GetAsyncKeyState(vbKeyLButton) < 0 Then
MouseButton = 1
End If
If GetAsyncKeyState(vbKeyRButton) < 0 Then
MouseButton = MouseButton Or 2
End If
If GetAsyncKeyState(vbKeyMButton) < 0 Then
MouseButton = MouseButton Or 4
End If
End Function

' Return the number of mouse buttons.

Function MouseButtonsNumber() As Integer
Const SM_CMOUSEBUTTONS = 43
MouseButtonsNumber = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CMOUSEBUTTONS)
End Function

' Show and Hide the mouse cursor.
' (These calls must be balanced.)

Sub MouseHide()
ShowCursor False
End Sub

Sub MouseShow()
ShowCursor True
End Sub

' Get mouse X coordinates (screen coordinates).
' If a window handle is passed, the result are client area coordinates
' relative to that window.

Function MouseX(Optional ByVal hWnd As Long) As Long
Dim lpPoint As POINTAPI
GetCursorPos lpPoint
If hWnd Then ScreenToClient hWnd, lpPoint
MouseX = lpPoint.X
End Function

Function MouseY(Optional ByVal hWnd As Long) As Long
Dim lpPoint As POINTAPI
GetCursorPos lpPoint
If hWnd Then ScreenToClient hWnd, lpPoint
MouseY = lpPoint.Y
End Function

' Mouse mouse cursor. If a window handle is passed, the coordinates
' are taken as relative to that window's client area.

Sub MoveMouseCursor(ByVal X As Long, ByVal Y As Long, Optional ByVal hWnd As Long)
If hWnd = 0 Then
SetCursorPos X, Y
Else
Dim lpPoint As POINTAPI
lpPoint.X = X
lpPoint.Y = Y
ClientToScreen hWnd, lpPoint
SetCursorPos lpPoint.X, lpPoint.Y
End If
End Sub

' Clip the mouse cursor to a given rectangle.

Sub ClipMouse(ByVal Left As Long, ByVal Top As Long, ByVal Right As Long, ByVal Bottom As Long)
Dim lpRect As RECT
lpRect.Left = Left
lpRect.Top = Top
lpRect.Right = Right
lpRect.Bottom = Bottom
ClipCursor lpRect
End Sub

' Clip mouse to a given window.

Sub ClipMouseToWindow(ByVal hWnd As Long)
Dim lpPoint As POINTAPI, lpRect As RECT
' Retrieve the coordinates of the upper-left corner of the window.
ClientToScreen hWnd, lpPoint
' Get the client screen rectangle.
GetClientRect hWnd, lpRect
' Manually convert the rectangle's elements to screen coordinates.
lpRect.Left = lpRect.Left + lpPoint.X
lpRect.Top = lpRect.Top + lpPoint.Y
lpRect.Right = lpRect.Right + lpPoint.X
lpRect.Bottom = lpRect.Bottom + lpPoint.Y
' Enforce the clipping.
ClipCursor lpRect
End Sub

' Clear the mouse clip area.

Sub ClearClipMouse()
ClipCursor ByVal 0&
End Sub

' Set mouse capture.

Sub SetMouseCapture(ByVal hWnd As Long)
If hWnd Then
SetCapture hWnd
Else
ReleaseCapture
End If
End Sub

' Get the handle of the window that has the mouse capture.

Function GetMouseCapture() As Long
GetMouseCapture = GetCapture()
End Function

' Return the handle of the window under the mouse cursor.

Function WindowFromMouse() As Long
Dim lpPoint As POINTAPI
GetCursorPos lpPoint
WindowFromMouse = WindowFromPoint(lpPoint.X, lpPoint.Y)
End Function


in your timer put this code

' Show mouse button state
msg = "X = " & MouseX & " Y = " & MouseY & " "

If LeftButton Then msg = msg & "LEFT "
If MiddleButton Then msg = msg & "MIDDLE "
If RightButton Then msg = msg & "RIGHT"
msg = msg & "[ " & ObjectFromMouse & " ]"
lblMouse = msg

your interval set to 200

Thanks
Hisham

Don't bother with a timer - just subclass the form and when you get a WM_MOUSEMOVE message you will have x in th ehiword of lParam and y in the loword of lParam.

See the ImageMapVB.zip with code on how to do this at http://www.merrioncomputing.com/Download/index.htm

HTH,
Duncan

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Merrion Computing Ltd
http://www.merrioncomputing.com
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*sigh*

I cant get this to work for me :(
I want to be able to click the button and then be able to click in windows any where i want and have it give me the windows Coords X and Y ad place them in feilds for me on the form that the button is on.
I cat get this to work

:(

Aha - to get clicks *outside* your form you need to "Capture" the mouse.

To do this you use the SetCapture API call. Once you have done this then every mouse message in the same thread as your application will be sent to the window that you have set the capture to.

(There is a good example of setcapture on this site so I won't plagiarise it)

HTH,
Duncan

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Ex. Datis: Duncan Jones
Merrion Computing Ltd
http://www.merrioncomputing.com
Check out the new downloads - ImageMap.ocx is the VB control that emulates an HTML image map, EventVB.OCX for adding new events to your VB form and adding System Tray support simply, MCL Hotkey for implemenmting system-wide hotkeys in your application...all with source code included.

can you show me where it is o how to set mine up please?

No one has any advice on how to get this to work ??

So far i cant get it to work :(