Global Command: getCursorPos

Get the current position of the mouse cursor.

Note that the function returns the cursor position in relation to the screen instead of in relation to the scene. This difference matters if your scene is larger than your screen resolution and thus scrollable. Have a look at example 2 on how to deal with this.

Related functions

setCursorPos

Syntax

getCursorPos()

Parameters

none

Return values

A Visionaire "t_point" field holding the current mouse cursor position is returned. That's an associative array containing the elements x and y.

Type/Structure		Description
table	x (int)	Horizontal position (X coordinate) of current mouse cursor position
	y (int)	Vertical position (Y coordinate) of current mouse cursor position

Examples

Example 1: Check if the current cursor position matches a defined position.

-- Store the current position into a variable
local curPos = getCursorPos()

-- Check if the stored cursor position equals another {x,y} value
if curPos.x == 200 and curPos.y == 400 then
  return true
else
  return false
end

Example 2: Function to get the cursor position in relation to the scene by taking the current scroll position into account.

function getAbsoluteCursorPos()
  -- Store the current position into a variable
  local curPos = getCursorPos()

  -- Empty table to store the absolute position
  local curAbsPos = {}

  -- Add the current scroll position to the cursor position
  curAbsPos.x = game.ScrollPosition.x + curPos.x
  curAbsPos.y = game.ScrollPosition.y + curPos.y

  return curAbsPos
end