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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: x and y
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Date: 2 Aug 89 17:47:12 GMT
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> When I get the x and y back from the event handler it is relative to
> the widget I clicked on ... what I really want is the cursor
> position when the event occurred.  Thanks,

Use XtTranslateCoords().

Note: there is a small bug in this routine in R3 that causes the toolkit
not to track movements of the window once it has been initially placed.  If
you are planning to distribute your code before R4 is avaliable then you
might want to temporarily use XTranslateCoordinates().


						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

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