Thread: Getting co-ordinates of the screen

I have created a multi-doc application in visual c++ and in the CProjectView class I have used the function:

void CDrawView::OnLButtonDown(UINT nFlags, CPoint point) {

CString s1;
CString old;

CClientDC dc(this);
//add a crect to the dc at point
_itoa(point.x, s1, 10);
old += s1;
old += " , ";
_itoa(point.y, s1, 10);
old += s1;
AfxMessageBox(old);

}

This function is used to add a rectangle to the document and then show the co-ordinates of the point pressed. The problem I'm having is that the co-ordinates showing up are the co-ordinates of what's on the screen, not the whole document. The co-ordinates of the whoe document go up to 1700, 1122. But when I press the bottom-right of the view it shows only 950, 600. If I then scroll across and down and then press the bottom-right of the view again it shows only 950, 600 again(when I want it to show 1700, 1122). Can you help me?

You might try:

dc.SetViewportOrg(point.x,point.y);
/*The previous origin of the viewport (in device coordinates) as a CPoint object.*/

The return value is the previous origin of the viewport (in device coordinates) as a CPoint object.