Question

I would like to store the user’s mouse click position on two variables

float x,y;

I’m using openGL with C. I already have a mouse function using glut, but when I try to print x and y, it gives me values like x = 134; y = 150, while my screen ortho is between 0 and 1.

I want to get the exact points to draw a point there.

Answer 1

you need to register a mouse callback function it has the following signature:

void glutMouseFunc(void (*func)(int button, int state,
                                int x, int y));

There’s a tutorial that covers some basics here

Edit: If you want the position to be normalized (0.0 – 1.0) divide by the width and height:

float x1 = x /(float) width;
float y1 = y /(float) height;