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Declare Function GetClipCursor Lib "user32.dll" (lprc As RECT) As Long

Platforms: Win 32s, Win 95/98, Win NT

GetClipCursor finds the current confinement rectangle of the mouse cursor. The mouse cursor is confined by using ClipCursor. The cursor is confined inside this rectangle -- even SetCursorPos cannot free it. If there is no apparent confinement rectangle, it is actually the size of the screen. The coordinates of the rectangle is put into lprc. The function returns 0 if an error occured, or 1 if it succeeded.

lprcReceives the coordinates of the confinement rectangle.

Example:

' Display the coordinates of the confinement rectangle. Dim r As RECT  ' receives coordinates of rectangle Dim retval As Long  ' return value retval = GetClipCursor(r)  ' read the coordinates and put them into r Debug.Print r.Left; r.Top  ' display upper-left (x,y) pair Debug.Print r.Right; r.Bottom  ' display lower-right (x,y) pair

See Also: ClipCursor
Category: Cursor

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