Tim,

Too rushed to check right now, but maybe OBJTOCLIENT() will help???

Good luck,
Jim N

>Is there any simple (fast) way to get the current mouse position relative to the conatiner (not form) the mouse is in?
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>e.g. - mouse clicks on a container and holds...if mouse moves outside the container - I need to do something. I have a timer, and each loop thru it checks the MCOL() and MROW() values against THIS.LEFT etc. BUT if this class is inside another container (which it is) THIS.Left = 0 (or small number).
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>What I need is a mechanism of finding out the position of the mouse in a container, or finding the absolute LEFT, TOP of a container.
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>Right now I am using:
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>LOCAL o
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>o = THIS.Parent
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>lnX = MCOL(THISFORM.Name, 3)
>lnY = MROW(THISFORM.name, 3)
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>DO WHILE (o.baseclass "Form")
> lnX = lnX - o.LEFT
> lnY = lnY - o.TOP
> o = o.Parent
>ENDDO
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>Problem is - some classes (namely a "page") do not have LEFT or TOP properties. and this loop is slow in a 30 ms timer loop...
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>Using VFP 5, btw..
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>Thanks in advance
>Tim