>>Hi,
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>>How would you recommend to detect a current mouse position on the VFP application screen? What happens is a user clicks and a function from the
www.news2news.com (wonderful tools) helps me to catch that the mouse was clicked. But I need to find it if it was clicked within a certain area. TIA.
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>Here is some code I use to put a dot on a map where a crime is located. It may help.
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>* In the CLICK method of a form
>* XX and YY are the coordiates of the mouse position
>
>Local Choice
>Choice = Messagebox( "Do you want to place a crime location on the map? ",4," Map coordinates ")
>Do Case
>Case Choice = 7
> Return
>Case Choice = 6
> NameOfShape = SYS(2015)
> Thisform.AddObject( NameOfShape, "shape")
> With Thisform.Controls[thisform.ControlCount]
> .Move(XX,YY,7,7)
> .Curvature = 99
> .BackColor = 255
> .BackStyle = 1
> .BorderWidth = 0
> .BorderColor = 65535
> .SpecialEffect = 0
> .ToolTipText = "Crime location"
> .Visible = .T.
> Endwith
>ENDCASE
>Do Form Details
>
Thank you, Grady. I will see if this will apply.
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