ScreenToClient and ClientToScreen don't seem to be of much use for what I am trying here. I need to get the cursor position in the child window only. First I need to find out which of four child windows the cursor is in, then I need to find out what coordinates the mouse cursor is in that window. I want the coordinates to start at 0,0 in the child windows' upper-left corner and go to whatever it's max is in each of the four child windows. The four child windows are all STATIC and SS_BITMAP. Thanks for the help.

<br>-Sephiroth

: ScreenToClient and ClientToScreen don't seem to be of much use for what I am trying here. I need to get the cursor position in the child window only. First I need to find out which of four child windows the cursor is in, then I need to find out what coordinates the mouse cursor is in that window. I want the coordinates to start at 0,0 in the child windows' upper-left corner and go to whatever it's max is in each of the four child windows. The four child windows are all STATIC and SS_BITMAP. Thanks for the help.
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: -Sephiroth
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POINT pt,pt2;
HWND hc;
GetCursorPosition(&pt);
pt2=pt;
ScreenToClient(hWnd,&pt);
hc=ChildWindowFromPoint(hWnd,&pt);
if(!hc) break;
ScreenToClient(hc,&pt2);

At the beginning, hWnd points to the parent window.
At the end, hc will contain the handle to the child window and pt2 will contain the coordinates within that window. Why you chose your level editor to be just a static bitmap is beyond my comprehension...

I chose to do five of the editor windows as static bitmaps, and here's why:

1) Current Texture:
Well, the textures can't be displayed in a text window =P

2) Data Matrix (level layer that contains door info, exits, etc):
Easy to draw the 50x50 grid in memory, then put into the window, as well as show level info

3) Wall Matrix (layer that holds all wall textures and effects):
See #2

4) Ceiling Matrix (layer that holds all ceiling textures and effects):
See #2

5) Floor Matrix(layer that holds all floor textures and effects):
See #2

Since none of those five windows will contain any text, and I can double-buffer them for smoother updates, I figured, why not? If you have a way that would work better let me know and I'll check it out. Numbers 2-5 never actually load any bitmaps, but they display a bunch of lines (the grid) and a bunch of colored blocks inside the grid indicating different things.


-Sephiroth

Take this (I'm working on Borland C++ Builder 3)

in every child of them go to its events list then to OnMouseMove event double click on it then you have a the X,Y position of the mouse and a place to put some code on it.