Absolute position of GuiControl?

[jodyflorian]

Hi,

I've spent quite some time trying to find out how to make a script calculate or retrieve the absolute position of a Gui Control relative to the screen?

I'm having problems because in calculating it I need to know what size border XP etc puts around windows - I can't seem to get round it?

Thanks

Jody

[trancexx]

Hi,

I've spent quite some time trying to find out how to make a script calculate or retrieve the absolute position of a Gui Control relative to the screen?

I'm having problems because in calculating it I need to know what size border XP etc puts around windows - I can't seem to get round it?

Thanks

Jody

_WinAPI_GetSystemMetrics() will give you that information.

[Authenticity]

_WinAPI_GetWindowRect - Will give you the window dimensions relative to the upper left spot of the screen, you can then use _WinAP_GetSystemMetrics with $SM_CXBORDER for example to get the width of the border, you can get much more information from this function. There are a lot of helper functions, just take a look in the help file. Good-luck.

[monoceres]

Hi and welcome to the forums

Once you realize controls and windows really are the same the solution is easy, just use WinGetPos().

Example:

$hwnd=GUICreate("Test",120,70)
$button=GUICtrlCreateButton("Test",10,10,100,50,0x2000)
GUISetState()

$buttonhwnd=WinGetHandle(ControlGetHandle($hwnd,"",$button))
Do
    $pos=WinGetPos($buttonhwnd)
    GUICtrlSetData($button,"X: "&$pos[0]&@CRLF&"Y: "&$pos[1])
    Sleep(50)
Until GUIGetMsg()=-3

[jodyflorian]

Fantastic - thanks I think it's working!

[PsaltyDS]

Hi and welcome to the forums

Once you realize controls and windows really are the same the solution is easy, just use WinGetPos().

Example:

$hwnd=GUICreate("Test",120,70)
$button=GUICtrlCreateButton("Test",10,10,100,50,0x2000)
GUISetState()

$buttonhwnd=WinGetHandle(ControlGetHandle($hwnd,"",$button))
Do
    $pos=WinGetPos($buttonhwnd)
    GUICtrlSetData($button,"X: "&$pos[0]&@CRLF&"Y: "&$pos[1])
    Sleep(50)
Until GUIGetMsg()=-3

I don't think you have to get the "handle of the handle" so just use:

; $buttonhwnd = WinGetHandle(ControlGetHandle($hwnd,"",$button))
$buttonhwnd = ControlGetHandle($hwnd,"",$button)

[monoceres]

I don't think you have to get the "handle of the handle" so just use:

; $buttonhwnd = WinGetHandle(ControlGetHandle($hwnd,"",$button))
 $buttonhwnd = ControlGetHandle($hwnd,"",$button)

Uhm yeah, that was stupid. I was tired..