getCursorPos in Window

#1 It worked the way you want back in Beta 4. It was changed after that to make getCursorPos() and setCursorPos() work in a consistent manner. See the following thread for more info...

www.torquepowered.com/community/forums/viewthread/98455

So if you have Beta 4 laying around, you could just swipe the code from there.

#2
The cursor position being reported in screen-space is by design since this is the only correct way to handle the mouse.

However, looking at this again, I just discovered that apparently we don't have a way to actually retrieve information about the window position on GuiCanvas or a method to perform screen<->client space conversions. That's definitely a hole in the API.

I'll add methods that do these kind of things for b2.

#3 Anyone have the beta 4 code for this ? As i need the ability to get/set the mouse position in window space...

#4 Was this ever fixed in the 1.01 version and if so, how do I get the mouse pos relative to a window?

#5 You can try this:

%cursorpos = Canvas.getCursorPos();
   if( !Canvas.isFullscreen() )
   {
      %windowPosition = Canvas.getWindowPosition();
      echo( "[CLIENT]> %windowPosition: " @ %windowPosition );
      %xPos = getWord(%cursorpos, 0) - getWord( %windowPosition, 0 );
      %yPos = getWord(%cursorpos, 1) - getWord( %windowPosition, 1 );
   }
   else
   {
      %xPos = getWord(%cursorpos, 0);
      %yPos = getWord(%cursorpos, 1);
   }
   
   echo( "[CLIENT]> cursor position: " @ %cursorpos @ " : " @ %xPos @ " : " @ %yPos );

#6 Canvas.getWindowPosition() = unknown command

Thanks for the reply, I found a way to cheat it.

#7 Its not a unknown command, its from the script manual.

Point2I GuiCanvas::getWindowPosition ( )

Get the current position of the platform window associated with the canvas.

Returns:
The window position of the canvas in screen-space.

#8 Sorry, my version 1.01 reports unknown, from the log file

echo(canvas.getWindowPosition());
<input> (0): Unknown command getWindowPosition.
Object Canvas(1322) Canvas -> GuiCanvas -> GuiCanvas -> GuiControl -> SimGroup ->

canvas.dump() doesn't show it either.

I will dig into the engine code and have a look, this version may not expose it to script.
Thanks again...

#9 i tested to Torque3D 1.2.

getCursorPos() function has problem as ever.

so i use this function use with screenToClient function.

like this.

%GetCurPos = Canvas.screenToClient( Canvas.getCursorPos() );

#10 Thanks Mquaker! Was looking for this in my "spare time" and you caught it first.

For those who are interested, it's defined in guiCanvas.cpp around line 2452 in 1.2.

And I was thinking of hacking together a method to grab the HWND handle from the D3D device....

#11 Indeed, thanks. Now I can remove my hack..

#12 This works with 'lockMouse = false', elsewhere when 'lockMouse = true' (what we all want because this parameter locks cursor in a game window and changes a cursor's image if we prepared) I get the same cursors coordinates every time. Does anybody know why?

#13 This is taking place because when 'lockMouse = true', Torque locks the cursor in the center of the screen
Does anybody know how to fix this?

#14 I ran into this problem while implementing some object selection code last year. Pretty sure I submitted a bug request but perhaps not. At any rate I didn't see it there any longer. Here is the code used to get past that issue. I guess I better check to see how my v1.2 code is behaving now!

// Fixed to show correct position in window relative to top left corner
// Previously was reporting position from top left of display window
//
Point2I GuiCanvas::getCursorPos()
{
   Point2I p( 0, 0 );
   POINT topleft;  
   topleft.x = 0;
   topleft.y = 0;
  
   Win32Window* w = dynamic_cast<Win32Window*>(mPlatformWindow);  
   
   if(w != NULL)  
      ClientToScreen(w->getHWND(), &topleft); 

  if( mPlatformWindow )
      mPlatformWindow->getCursorPosition( p );

   return Point2I( p.x - topleft.x, p.y - topleft.y );
}

@genomegames: locking the mouse decouples the mouse from the movemap. There are several good resources discussing how to address this. Here is one by Dave Myers you could look at: [url]www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/2173[url]