I need to get the mouse position on the screen on a Mac using Xcode. I have some code that supposedly does that but i always returns x and y as 0:
void queryPointer()
{
NSPoint mouseLoc;
mouseLoc = [NSEvent mouseLocation]; //get current mouse position
NSLog(@"Mouse location:");
NSLog(@"x = %d", mouseLoc.x);
NSLog(@"y = %d", mouseLoc.y);
}
What am I doing wrong? How do you get the current position on the screen? Also, ultimately that position (saved in a NSPoint) needs to be copied into a CGPoint to be used with another function so i need to get this either as x,y coordinates or translate this.
thanks!
EDIT:
found the answer:
CGEventRef ourEvent = CGEventCreate(NULL);
point = CGEventGetLocation(ourEvent);
NSLog(@"Location? x= %f, y = %f", (float)point.x, (float)point.y);