What is the best way to get mouse position over form?

c# .net mouse onmousemove mouse-position
Wahid Bitar picture Wahid Bitar · May 17, 2009 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

I want the best way to get mouse position for Form.

I,m now set the values of mouse position in variables to get them in another methods "Like Form1_Click".

Is there any better way to do that??.

Thank you very much.

Answer

Daniel A. White picture Daniel A. White · May 17, 2009

How does this work for you?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.onmousemove.aspx

Another alternative is:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.mouseposition.aspx

then to get it on the form use:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.pointtoclient.aspx

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