Question

How can I get in Mac OS X “global” mouse position – I mean how can I in cocoa/cf/whatever find out cursor position even if it’s outside the window, and even if my window is inactive?

I know it’s somehow possible (even without admin permissions), because I’ve seen something like that in Java – but I want to write it in ObjC

Sorry for my English – I hope you’ll understand what I mean 😉

Answer 1

NSPoint mouseLoc;
mouseLoc = [NSEvent mouseLocation]; //get current mouse position
NSLog(@"Mouse location: %f %f", mouseLoc.x, mouseLoc.y);

If you want it to continuously get the coordinates then make sure you have an NSTimer or something similar