system.gui.convertPointToScreen

Description

Converts a pair of coordinates that are relative to the upper-left corner of some component to be relative to the upper-left corner of the entire screen.

Syntax

system.gui.convertPointToScreen(x, y, event)

Parameters

int x - The X-coordinate, relative to the component that fired the event.

int y - The Y-coordinate, relative to the component that fired the event.

EventObject event - An event object for a component event.

Returns

PyTuple - A tuple of (x,y) in screen coordinates.

Scope

Client

Examples

This example will get the coordinates where the mouse is (from the corner of the monitor) and display them in a label.

#get the screen coordinates of the pointer and write them to a label

coords = system.gui.convertPointToScreen(event.x, event.y, event)

event.source.getComponent('Label').text = "x: %s y: %s" %(coords[0], coords[1])