Get Mouse Cursor Position Inside or Outside Form

Category:

System/API

Type:

Snippets

Difficulty:

Beginning

Author:

Muhammad Javaid

Version Compatibility: Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic 5

More information:

This code demonstrates how to get the mouse cursor position inside or outside the form anywhere on the screen. To use the code as written, you must add a timer and two label controls to a form.

Instructions: Copy the declarations and code below and paste directly into your VB project.

Declarations:
Private Declare Function GetCursorPos Lib "user32" (lpPoint As _ POINTAPI) As Long Private Type POINTAPI x As Long y As Long End Type Dim a As POINTAPI Dim b As Long Dim c As Long

Code: