Ruby: getting x,y position before moving the mouse?

Developers
1

To get the x,y position of the mouse pointer, normally you would use

    def onMouseMove(flags, x, y, view)		
    @ip.pick(view, x, y)

This code relies on the mouse being moved. But, if a tool is started with a
keypress, is it possible to immediately get the x,y position of the
mouse pointer before actually moving the mouse?

2

the first cursor may or may not be in the viewport, which is why you need to detect activity in the view…

I have mac code that tells me where the cursor is,

 `/usr/local/bin/cliclick p`
Current mouse position: 512,269

but then i need to check where the viewport is in the screen and check if there are other windows covering it or not…

one way I can do that is send a mouse click and check if SU records a mouse down…
if not I move the cursor toward viewport center until I get a hit…

I believe you can do something similar on Windows, but it’s so hit and miss…
I found another way to do what I needed and haven’t progressed the code past testing the theory…

why do you want the position?
john

3

Thanks for your suggestion John. I’m on win7x64 so will continue to search if there’s something similar for it.

I’m coding a ruby plugin and want to display (draw) something at the current mouse position immediately after starting the tool with a key press. It’s no biggy if I first have to slightly move the mouse but would prefer not to.

Max.