The Difference Between MousEventArgs.Location and Cursor.Position

Question

I don't understand why Cursor.Position is different from MouseEventArgs.Location, they should be the same, don't they?

Edit: The answer seems to suggest that Cursor.Position== PointToScreen(MouseEventArgs.Location), but my testing indicates otherwise.

Answer 1

I think Cursor.Position is relative to the desktop, whereas MouseEventArgs.Location is relative to the control that fired the event

Answer 2

MouseEventArgs.Position is relative to the client rectangle of the control, Cursor.Position is in screen coordinate.

Answer 3

Hello,

MouseEventArgs.location gives you the cursor position relative to the control during the event.

Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position gives you the cursor position relative to the desktop.

Obviously, these two need not be and are not same. The latter can be used without an event as such too unlike MouseEventArgs.Location

Answer 4

MouseEventArgs.Position is the mouse cursor position relative to the control during the event, at the time of the event.

Cursor.Position is the current mouse cursor position relative to the desktop.