Mouse co-ordinates?????

Heres what I'd like to do :



pick up th emouse x and y posiion and then print that back to the screen, then maybe once that is done try and load my own bitmap into the window, and have some of my own custom buttons, then using the mouse position detect wether it is over the button and ready to click or whatever , probably something simple but I'd liek to try it with bitmaps, if somebody coul dhelp



thanks alot


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Stealth

I don't think you have to use mouse pos. Try this:

case WM_COMMAND:
switch(LOWORD(wParam))
{
case "RSRCBMPNAME":
// do stuff
break;
}
break;

Oh ok , so I dont need to do that then huh?, hmm mso it cant be the best way then, but this other way, will that let me know where the mouse is, cause thats what I want, I've never really seen anything liek that b4 , so is it ok if u explain a little more, sorry about that, oh yeah did u read r post about the pong game? cause I replied there asking if I could help u, just email me if it's ok


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thanks alot


Cheers


Stealth

Yup. I replied. Can you reply to my Hotmail? Ok, for what you want:


POINT m;

GetCursorPos(&m);

if(m == pos)
{
// do this
}

I'm not sure but it may work

hmmmmm looks like that would be the "Cursor" position wouldnt it?, and I'm sfter the mouse co - ordinates so that something can happen if the mouse is inside a "Reactive area"or something like that, I'm kinda getting the idea though


thanks again


Cheers



Stealth

you could also use the case WM_MOUSEMOVE, one of the params - i don't remember which - is a POINT which is your mouse position. if you have bitmaps, you can use the PtInRect() command, which will tell you if your mouse has moved over the certain rectangle that your bitmap is in.

Oh yeah I kinda understand the ptInrect() now , hmmm thanks for the help guys, I still need to learn a little more these functions though



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Stealth

1. On WM_LBUTTONDOWN ect copy the wparam / lparam onto a POINT var. Or use the macro MAKEPOINTS.
Convert this to / from POINTS to POINT with a type cast (is short int -> int )

2. GetClientRect() of the button / area on screen.

3. As both are in diff cood's convert both to the same with ClientToScreen().

4. Use PtInRect() with the client rect and the mouse point. If the return is zero try another button, else that area / button was clicked.

I use an array that has the HWND, ClientRect ID, pointer to processing function ect of all the buttons and use a for loop to find the one clicked.