Enabling Form.Capture

Getting the mouse co-ordinates is facilitated by .Net itself. Infact you have it right: System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position will give you the current mouse co-ordinates.

The problem is knowing when this has changed so you can call it. To do that you use Windows Hooks.

static int WH_MOUSE_LL = 14; [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("kernel32.dll")] static extern IntPtr GetModuleHandle(string moduleName); [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("user32.dll")] static extern IntPtr SetWindowsHookEx(int idHook, HookProc lpfn, IntPtr hMod, uint dwThreadId); [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("user32.dll")] static extern IntPtr CallNextHookEx(IntPtr hhk, int nCode, uint wParam, IntPtr lParam); delegate IntPtr HookProc(int nCode, uint wParam, IntPtr lParam); IntPtr LowLevelMouseProc(int nCode, uint wParam, IntPtr lParam) { textBox1.Text = Cursor.Position.ToString(); return CallNextHookEx(IntPtr.Zero, nCode, wParam, lParam); }

And in your initializer add the following code

IntPtr hook = SetWindowsHookEx(WH_MOUSE_LL, new HookProc(LowLevelMouseProc), GetModuleHandle(null), 0);

VijayeRaji at 2007-9-9 >

The code above would capture mouse cursor position anywhere in the screen.

You can get "x" and "y" from the System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position as such
System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position.X
System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position.Y

VijayeRaji at 2007-9-9 >