Position of field on screen

[Bastiaan Olij]

Hi Kim,

Nope, those only give me the position of the field within its current
container, so if I want the position on screen I would have to add the
left and top position of its container, and its container, and possibly
traverse further down, and then the window, and add any top/left
toolbars, take into account scrollbar positions of the various
containers, take into account any container that is a tabpane, take into
account the size of borders of all the containers, not to mention that
those sizes change depending on the OS and that certain things have a
size that can change depending on content without Omnis providing me
with that info (tab panes with a double row of headers for instance).

I've written such logic before but it is a dog to maintain whenever a
new OS comes out. It would be so neat to just have a function that gives
me the screen coordinates of a field. I was hoping that someone found a
way to do so. I know there is a function in the XCOMP SDK that allows me
to get to this info if I provide it with the HWND of the field (I may
add such a function to my external if all else fails) but I find it hard
to believe it is not part of Omnis somewhere.

Cheers,

Bas

On 28/08/14 1:32 PM, Kim Sumner wrote:
> Hi Bas
>
> $cfield.$top & $cfield.$left will give you coordinates location within
> $cwind
>
>
> Regards
>
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