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jsavage YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 9	Way to move the mouse pointer from inside program? Nov 26th, 2008, 10:44pm   Say for example I'd like to make the mouse pointer chase a ball rather than the ball following the mouse.  How would I go about changing the pointer's positioning?  I've tried modifying the mouseX and mouseY variables but that does not move the pointer.
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PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: Way to move the mouse pointer from inside prog Reply #1 - Nov 27th, 2008, 12:32am   See Re: Control mouse coordinates

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Re: Way to move the mouse pointer from inside prog Reply #2 - Nov 27th, 2008, 12:52am   Ok, I tried that and I can indeed move the mouse with the robot class.  However, it moves it relative to the screen coordinates.  How do I move it relative to the processing windows coordinates?  Or alternatively, how do I get the mouse's current position relative to the screen coordinates that the robot class uses?

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: Way to move the mouse pointer from inside prog Reply #3 - Nov 27th, 2008, 2:02am   You can get the sketch's coordinates on screen with frame.getLocationOnScreen(). It needs to be adjusted for window decorations (borders, title...).

Ira Full Member Offline Posts: 238 Dallas	Re: Way to move the mouse pointer from inside prog Reply #4 - Nov 27th, 2008, 4:24am   You can also check out http://processing.org/hacks/hacks:robot
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jsavage YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 9	Re: Way to move the mouse pointer from inside prog Reply #5 - Nov 28th, 2008, 2:40am   ok, I've got everything to work except how to I account for the window decorations?  I need this to work across platforms as well.  All I need to do is move the mouse relative to it's current position.  Isn't there an easier way?

seltar Senior Member Offline Posts: 475	Re: Way to move the mouse pointer from inside prog Reply #6 - Nov 28th, 2008, 8:27am   frame.isDecorated() google Java Frame and Java Robot -seltar
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PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: Way to move the mouse pointer from inside prog Reply #7 - Nov 28th, 2008, 11:13am   jsavage wrote on Nov 28th, 2008, 2:40am: All I need to do is move the mouse relative to it's current position. Untested (even less in Processing's context) but it might be useful: Determine Absolute Cursor Coordinates.