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Deprecated Event Manager Legacy Reference (Legacy) Functions

A function identified as deprecated has been superseded and may become unsupported in the future.

Deprecated in Mac OS X v10.5

GetMouse

Obtains the current mouse location. (Deprecated in Mac OS X v10.5.)

Not recommended

void GetMouse (
   Point * mouseLoc
);

Parameters

mouseLoc

Returns a pointer to a point describing the current mouse location in local coordinates of the current graphics port (for example, the active window). Note that this value differs from the value of the where field of the event structure, which specifies the mouse location in global coordinates.

Return Value

Availability

• Supported in Carbon. Available in CarbonLib 1.0 and later when running Mac OS 8.1 or later.
• Available in Mac OS X 10.0 and later.
• Deprecated in Mac OS X v10.5.
• Not available to 64-bit applications.

Carbon Porting Notes

You should adopt Carbon events and take action on mouse-moved events rather than poll the mouse position directly.

Declared In

Events.h

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