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Ben Parker
Ben Parker

Reputation: 67

Continue tracking mouse with Pygame even when Pygame window isn't active

Okay, so I'm using Pygame, and I created a code that tracks the mouse on my Pygame display. However, when I pull up another window over the Pygame one, it stops tracking the mouse position. I was wondering, is there any way to continue tracking the mouse even when my Pygame window is not the active one?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 92

Answers (1)

Ben Parker
Ben Parker

Reputation: 67

Okay, so I figured it out. I was going about it the wrong way.

pygame.mouse.get_pos() is what I was using, and that only tracks the position of the mouse on the Pygame surface created. So if there's another window there, the mouse isn't actually on the Pygame surface. I ended up installing the module "win32api" and using

import win32api mouse = win32api.GetCursorPos() x1 = mouse[0] y1 = mouse[1]

for the x and y coordinates of the mouse position on the computer display. I realized afterward that there were questions answering what I needed to know, I just wasn't asking quite the right question.

Upvotes: 1

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