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Re: Mouse cursor position [message #19220 is a reply to message #19218]

Thu, 02 March 2000 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Jonathan Belisle (jbelislenotthis@gpa.qc.ca) writes:

> I'm new with IDL and I'm trying to find the mouse cursor position in the
> screen. I've try the cursor function but it return the mouse position in
> the active window.
>
> Anyone can help me ?

Nope. The best you can do is find the cursor in an IDL
graphics window. Although in draw widgets you can
*drag* the cursor out of the window and get the
current display location (relative to the location
where you started the drag) when you release the button.

Cheers,

David

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