Getting window coordinates in large windows.

Hi,

I need to acquire the client-area mouse coordinates in a window of a third party application. I have used GetCursorPos and ScreenToClient to get the mouse coordinates when the scrollbars are positioned at the top-left position. The client area of the window who’s coordinates I need are usually much larger then the window itself. If you use ScreenToClient in the window when the scrollbars are positioned a few 1000 pixels to the right and down from the upper left corner you will get the position of the mouse pointer relative to the upper left corner of the visible rectangle. Is there a way to get the difference between the upper left corner of the other apps window and the upper left corner of the visible area of the same window?

Thanks

Hi, welcome to the forums.

I think you will have to calculate the offset yourself. You can get the position of a scroll bar with the GetScrollPos or GetScrollInfo functions. This assumes the other application is using standard scroll bars. If not, the information may not be easily available.

In Win32 terminology, the client area of a window is the part of the window that is not taken up by the frame, title bar, menu bar, and possibly (depending on who you ask) toolbars and status bar and similar stuff.

What you're looking for is the position of the mouse within the document view. Because views are application specific, so must be the code that calculates this position.