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Chapter 2 - Event Manager / Event Manager Reference

Event Manager Routines / Reading the Mouse

GetMouse

You can use the GetMouse procedure to obtain the current mouse location.

PROCEDURE GetMouse (VAR mouseLoc: Point);

mouseLoc

Returns the current mouse location in local coordinates of the current graphics port (for example, the active window). Note that this value differs from the value of the where field of the event record, which specifies the mouse location in global coordinates.

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