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GettnDer
GettnDer

Reputation: 422

PointToScreen multiple montors

I am using PointToScreen to figure out the position of a popupwindow so that it is besides the button that was used to pop it up. However, the button is on a toolbar, so the user can move the pop-up around.

The position of the pop-up works well, but if the user is on a quadrant I want to move the pop-up above the bottom (instead of below) or left (instead of right).

The problem is that in a multi-monitor setup, PointToScreen delivers to position of the control of the main screen, so if I have another screen left of it, the X could be negative and so on.

Point location = new Point(buttonItem.ButtonBounds.X, buttonItem.ButtonBounds.Y);
location = toolBar.PointToScreen(location);
int screenHeight = Screen.FromControl(this).Bounds.Height;
int screenWidth = Screen.FromControl(this).Bounds.Width;
PopupWindow.Quadrant quad = location.Y < screenHeight / 2
    ? PopupWindow.Quadrant.Top
    : PopupWindow.Quadrant.Bottom;
quad |= location.X < screenWidth / 2
    ? PopupWindow.Quadrant.Left
    : PopupWindow.Quadrant.Right;

// ...
//Do stuff to adjust the position of the pop-up based on the quadrant

Now, here I am hoping I can get the position of the button relative to the screen that it is on without doing some ugly DllImport. Any ideas?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2053

Answers (1)

GettnDer
GettnDer

Reputation: 422

Transforming Ron Beyer comment into an answer:

static class ControlExtensions
{
    ///<summary>
    /// Returns the position of the point in screen coordinates of that control instead
    /// of the main-screen coordinates
    ///</summary>
    public static Point PointToCurrentScreen(this Control self, Point location)
    {
        var screenBounds = Screen.FromControl(self).Bounds;
        var globalCoordinates = self.PointToScreen(location);
        return new Point(globalCoordinates.X - screenBounds.X, globalCoordinates.Y - screenBounds.Y);
    }
}

Upvotes: 3

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