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==== Absolute mouse position (OpenInsight 32-bit Specific) ====
=== At 27 MAY 2006 03:52:58AM George Farrugia wrote: ===
 
 
<QUOTE>
In this forum I read somewhere that the following piece of code ...



   DECLARE SUBROUTINE GetCursorPos, Parse_Struct

   DECLARE FUNCTION Struct_To_Var



   XY=STR(\00\, 4)

   GetCursorPos(XY)

   XY=Struct_To_Var(XY, "POINT")

   X =XY

   Y =XY



returns the X and Y coordinates.



I'm managing to obtain the X coordinate but the Y coordinate is always null. I then replaced the line containing Struct_To_Var with this one:



   Parse_Struct(XY, "POINT", X, Y)



but still, I can only get the X coordinate; the Y coordinate is always null. What could I be doing wrong?  
</QUOTE>
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=== At 27 MAY 2006 07:48AM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>George,



That looks like 16-bit code. A Win32 POINT is 8 bytes (2 x 4-byte integers), not 4.



First thing - make sure the POINT structure definition is correct. Use the DEFINE_STRUCT window to check that both elements are two signed long integers.



Next use the blank_struct() function to create the memory for the point structure.




<code>

   DECLARE SUBROUTINE GetCursorPos, Parse_Struct
   DECLARE FUNCTION Struct_To_Var, blank_Struct

   XY=blank_struct( "POINT" )
   GetCursorPos(XY)
   XY=Struct_To_Var(XY, "POINT")
   X=XY
   Y=XY

</code>




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=== At 27 MAY 2006 10:43AM George Farrugia wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>Once again, thanks a lot Sprezz. You make it look so easy :)

</QUOTE>


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