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RedYetiDev
RedYetiDev

Reputation: 679

Is there a way to get the mouse position within the terminal?

I am currently coding a node.js program relating to mouse coordinates. Is there a way to see the mouse position in the terminal in Node.JS?

I've tried the ways beginning in \e but they only list the cursor position. How do I get the mouse position in the terminal? Example

Is there a way to get said position in the "Row/Column" or "Column/Row" format? If there is no way, what about using child_process?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1079

Answers (2)

RedYetiDev
RedYetiDev

Reputation: 679

I have solved my problem.

To get events, the bash escape load ESC[?100Xh, replacing X with a number. The events will then be logged to the console.

Upvotes: 0

Faisal Khalid
Faisal Khalid

Reputation: 11

You can take a look at RobotJS it can show you where the mouse position is. You can use 'getmousepos' function to get the X and Y coordinates of the mouse on the screen

NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/robotjs

Doc: https://robotjs.io/docs/syntax#getmousepos

Upvotes: 1

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