Okay, this method seems simple, but it eludes nonetheless.
I have a control that is nested in other controls. Essentially the control
is nested several contains from the main form. All I want is to determine
the screen coordinates of the control, but if I call RectangleToScre en on
either the Form or the parent container results in incorrect bound when
passed the bounds of the control.
How might I determine the screen coordinates of the control when it is
inside other containers?
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Peter,
What's wrong with this?...
Cursor.Position .X
Cursor.Position .Y
Best Regards
Johann Blake
Peter Rilling wrote: Okay, this method seems simple, but it eludes nonetheless.
I have a control that is nested in other controls. Essentially the control
is nested several contains from the main form. All I want is to determine
the screen coordinates of the control, but if I call RectangleToScre en on
either the Form or the parent container results in incorrect bound when
passed the bounds of the control.
How might I determine the screen coordinates of the control when it is
inside other containers?
You don't mention what the nature of the incorrect result is. Generally
you are doing this correctly: in a simple case, say you have a form and
a button, say at (100, 100) on the form. Now if you pass in a rect like
this to the form's RectangleToScre en method: (x: 100, y: 100, w: 75, h:
23), you should get the screen rectangle of the button in return. Works
for me :-) What are you doing (or seeing) differently?
For purposes of comparison: you should also get to the same top left
coordinate of the inner element by calling PointToScreen(n ew Point(0,
0)) on the element itself.
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Not sure what the cursor has to do with translating the control's local
coordinates to screen coordinates.
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news:11******** *************@g 47g2000cwa.goog legroups.com... Peter,
What's wrong with this?...
Cursor.Position .X
Cursor.Position .Y
Best Regards
Johann Blake
Let's see if I can explain. I am probably not using the method correctly.
Suppose I have the following controls layered such that each is a child of
the outer control. The coordinates in parenthesis is the top-left of the
control within the parent container. So panel2 should be about 30 px from
the edge of the screen (give or take some point for the form edge).
form1 (0, 0)
panel1 (10, 10)
panel2 (20, 20)
panel3 (30, 30)
button1 (40, 40)
What I would want to do is to get the screen position of button1. That
would be about 40+30+20+10 = 100 px, right (again, give or take).
For me to get this value, what is the proper way of using RectangleToScre en?
Would I go form1.Rectangle ToScreen(button 1.Bounds) or
panel3.Rectangl eToScreen(butto n1.bounds) or something else? When I
calculate the value, it always is less then what is should be, almost like
it is not taking into account the ancestor containers.
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news:#W******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP15.phx.gbl... Peter Rilling wrote:
Okay, this method seems simple, but it eludes nonetheless.
I have a control that is nested in other controls. Essentially the
control is nested several contains from the main form. All I want is to
determine the screen coordinates of the control, but if I call RectangleToScre en
on either the Form or the parent container results in incorrect bound when
passed the bounds of the control.
How might I determine the screen coordinates of the control when it is
inside other containers?
You don't mention what the nature of the incorrect result is. Generally
you are doing this correctly: in a simple case, say you have a form and
a button, say at (100, 100) on the form. Now if you pass in a rect like
this to the form's RectangleToScre en method: (x: 100, y: 100, w: 75, h:
23), you should get the screen rectangle of the button in return. Works
for me :-) What are you doing (or seeing) differently?
For purposes of comparison: you should also get to the same top left
coordinate of the inner element by calling PointToScreen(n ew Point(0,
0)) on the element itself.
Oliver Sturm
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Peter Rilling wrote: Let's see if I can explain. I am probably not using the method correctly.
Suppose I have the following controls layered such that each is a child of
the outer control. The coordinates in parenthesis is the top-left of the
control within the parent container. So panel2 should be about 30 px from
the edge of the screen (give or take some point for the form edge).
form1 (0, 0)
panel1 (10, 10)
panel2 (20, 20)
panel3 (30, 30)
button1 (40, 40)
What I would want to do is to get the screen position of button1. That
would be about 40+30+20+10 = 100 px, right (again, give or take).
No. The screen position is the position on screen, as the name tries to
indicate :-) Your calculation is only correct if your form is actually
at a (0, 0) screen coordinate. But maybe you meant it that way?
For me to get this value, what is the proper way of using RectangleToScre en?
Would I go form1.Rectangle ToScreen(button 1.Bounds) or
panel3.Rectangl eToScreen(butto n1.bounds) or something else? When I
calculate the value, it always is less then what is should be, almost like
it is not taking into account the ancestor containers.
Okay, it should work by calling
panel3.Rectangl eToScreen(butto n1.Bounds). Or more generically,
button1.Parent. RectangleToScre en(button1.Boun ds). If you have a complex
hierarchy of controls, it might be a good idea to just use the control
itself: button1.Rectang leToScreen(new Point(0, 0), button1.Size) should
give the same result. I tried these in a test program right now and they
worked fine for me.
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