How do I get the coordinates of the mouse relative to the program?

[zSynctic]

How do I get the coordinates of the mouse relative to the program?

[spyoungtech]

In AutoHotkey, the behavior of MouseGetPos (.mouse_position or .get_mouse_position() in the ahk python wrapper) is controlled by the current CoordMode setting. If you do not change the CoordMode, the default behavior is to retrieve the coordinates relative to the currently active window.

So, if your program is the active window, there is nothing else you need to do except just call .mouse_position or .get_mouse_position().

In the wrapper, there is two ways to change this behavior:

1. Use .set_coord_mode to change the global CoordMode setting: ahk.set_coord_mode(target='Mouse', relative_to='Screen')
   OR
2. Pass the coord_mode parameter to the .get_mouse_position method to set the coord mode just for that one call: ahk.get_mouse_position(coord_mode='Screen')

As noted in the documentation linked above, you may choose for coord mode to be relative to the Screen, Window, or Client.

If you want the get the mouse coordinates relative to a window that is not active, you can get the mouse position according to the screen, and get the position of the window and then calculate the relative position:

def get_mouse_position_relative_to(win) -> tuple[int, int]:
    win_pos = win.get_position()
    mouse_x, mouse_y = ahk.get_mouse_position(coord_mode='Screen')
    relative_position = (mouse_x - win_pos.x, mouse_y - win_pos.y)
    return relative_position