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How to get the mouse position on the screen in Qt?


I want to get the mouse coordinates on the screen.

How can I do this in Qt?


On Windows, using C# I was doing something like suggested in the answers to this question.


Solution

  • As the docs state: -

    QCursor::pos()
    

    Returns the position of the cursor (hot spot) of the primary screen in global screen coordinates.

    If you have multiple screens, you can use: -

    QPoint QCursor::pos(const QScreen * screen) 
    

    Note that QScreen is for Qt 5