Easy to to obtain the true X & Y position of your form?

[Covey]

Is there is easy way to obtain the TRUE X and Y position of your form relative to the screen?

me.bounds.left 'or .x

Just if you you're forms X position including the border...i just need the clientsize's X. (inside the border).

I have made a work around by a rather long winded math formula using clientsize.width and me.width etc

But was just wondering if there was a simpler way?

 

[Flopper]

I'm unaware of the depths of your question, so I was rather hesitant in offering a simple solution, but I'll start out nonetheless:
* Have you paid attention to PointToScreen? That'd go:

Dim screenCoordinates as Point = PointToScreen(FormName.Location)

If this isn't what you were looking for; could you elaborate?

 

[Covey]

I'm unaware of the depths of your question, so I was rather hesitant in offering a simple solution, but I'll start out nonetheless:
* Have you paid attention to PointToScreen? That'd go:

Dim screenCoordinates as Point = PointToScreen(FormName.Location)

If this isn't what you were looking for; could you elaborate?

nope that is just what i was after, thanks heaps

 

[Covey]

My mistake, it still seems to be off by a few pixels.
What i'm trying to do is get the x y co-ordinate of the ACTUAL form not the border of the form.

 

[Flopper]

My mistake, it still seems to be off by a few pixels.
What i'm trying to do is get the x y co-ordinate of the ACTUAL form not the border of the form.

How about overriding the OnPaint of the form and taking the ClipRectangle? I can't test it right on this PC and I don't know enough about it to tell you if it's the correct way. Try it out and see if it gives you the desired results, though.

Make a global variable somewhere and override the OnPaint of the form:

Public Class Form1
    Public paintpoint As Point

    Protected Overrides Sub OnPaint(ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs)
        MyBase.OnPaint(e)

        paintpoint = e.ClipRectangle.Location
    End Sub
End Class

.. and take the PointToScreen of the paintpoint variable.

If that doesn't work, I can't help you, unless I look further into it

 

[Covey]

How about overriding the OnPaint of the form and taking the ClipRectangle? I can't test it right on this PC and I don't know enough about it to tell you if it's the correct way. Try it out and see if it gives you the desired results, though.

Make a global variable somewhere and override the OnPaint of the form:

Public Class Form1
    Public paintpoint As Point

    Protected Overrides Sub OnPaint(ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs)
        MyBase.OnPaint(e)

        paintpoint = e.ClipRectangle.Location
    End Sub
End Class

.. and take the PointToScreen of the paintpoint variable.

If that doesn't work, I can't help you, unless I look further into it

It's all good mate, i nutted it out
i just put a control in the top corner of the form and got the pointtoscreen of that

Thanks for the help