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Spark YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	Position mouse cursor Sep 14th, 2008, 11:29am   Where would I find how to position the mouse cursor at a particular location from inside the program, do something like moveMouseTo(width/2,height/2)?

fjen God Member Offline Posts: 965	Re: Position mouse cursor Reply #1 - Sep 14th, 2008, 11:56am   have a look at the "Robot": http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/Robot.html i think there are some examples somewhere on the discourse here, surely you can find some on the web ... F

Spark YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	Re: Position mouse cursor Reply #2 - Sep 14th, 2008, 12:41pm   Thank you, F. That works in the LCD coordinate system. Now I need to find the location of the drawing window on the LCD. Or somehow redirect the robot to the drawing window instead of the LCD.

fjen God Member Offline Posts: 965	Re: Position mouse cursor Reply #3 - Sep 14th, 2008, 5:28pm   frame.getLocation().getX(); "frame" is a variable of PApplet set to the frame (java.awt.Frame) that contains it. see: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/Frame.html F