How to get exact position of a panel or picturebox?
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I'm creating C# application where I have a text box and a panel on the main form. I want to get the exact position of the panel relative to the screen's top-left corner (0,0). When I call this.Left and this.Top at the form it gives me the correct coordinates, but when I call panel.Location.X and panel.Location.Y it results in coordinates relative to the form, which is constant no matter where my form is located on the screen.
I want to get the top and left coordinates of a panel not relative to the form but relative to the screen, assuming top & left of the screen is (0,0).
How can I get the absolute position of my panel?
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I'm creating C# application where I have a text box and a panel on the main form. I want to get the exact position of the panel relative to the screen's top-left corner (0,0). When I call this.Left and this.Top at the form it gives me the correct coordinates, but when I call panel.Location.X and panel.Location.Y it results in coordinates relative to the form, which is constant no matter where my form is located on the screen.
I want to get the top and left coordinates of a panel not relative to the form but relative to the screen, assuming top & left of the screen is (0,0).
How can I get the absolute position of my panel?
c# winforms
edited Nov 22 at 17:10
Visual Vincent
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I'm creating C# application where I have a text box and a panel on the main form. I want to get the exact position of the panel relative to the screen's top-left corner (0,0). When I call this.Left and this.Top at the form it gives me the correct coordinates, but when I call panel.Location.X and panel.Location.Y it results in coordinates relative to the form, which is constant no matter where my form is located on the screen.
I want to get the top and left coordinates of a panel not relative to the form but relative to the screen, assuming top & left of the screen is (0,0).
How can I get the absolute position of my panel?
c# winforms
edited Nov 22 at 17:10
Visual Vincent
15k51947
I'm creating C# application where I have a text box and a panel on the main form. I want to get the exact position of the panel relative to the screen's top-left corner (0,0). When I call this.Left and this.Top at the form it gives me the correct coordinates, but when I call panel.Location.X and panel.Location.Y it results in coordinates relative to the form, which is constant no matter where my form is located on the screen.
I want to get the top and left coordinates of a panel not relative to the form but relative to the screen, assuming top & left of the screen is (0,0).
How can I get the absolute position of my panel?
c# winforms
c# winforms
edited Nov 22 at 17:10
Visual Vincent
15k51947
edited Nov 22 at 17:10
Visual Vincent
15k51947
edited Nov 22 at 17:10
Visual Vincent
15k51947
edited Nov 22 at 17:10
Visual Vincent
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edited Nov 22 at 17:10
Visual Vincent
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asked Nov 28 '13 at 15:21
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Use Control.PointToScreen Method to get location relative to screen:
Point location = PointToScreen(panel.Location);
answered Nov 28 '13 at 15:23
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This assumes the panel is directly contained by the form. For it to work regardless of the container, you can use the panel itself and pass (0, 0):Point location = panel.PointToScreen(new Point(0, 0));
– Idle_Mind
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Use Control.PointToScreen Method to get location relative to screen:
Point location = PointToScreen(panel.Location);
answered Nov 28 '13 at 15:23
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This assumes the panel is directly contained by the form. For it to work regardless of the container, you can use the panel itself and pass (0, 0):Point location = panel.PointToScreen(new Point(0, 0));
– Idle_Mind
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Use Control.PointToScreen Method to get location relative to screen:
Point location = PointToScreen(panel.Location);
answered Nov 28 '13 at 15:23
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This assumes the panel is directly contained by the form. For it to work regardless of the container, you can use the panel itself and pass (0, 0):Point location = panel.PointToScreen(new Point(0, 0));
– Idle_Mind
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Use Control.PointToScreen Method to get location relative to screen:
Point location = PointToScreen(panel.Location);
answered Nov 28 '13 at 15:23
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Use Control.PointToScreen Method to get location relative to screen:
Point location = PointToScreen(panel.Location);
answered Nov 28 '13 at 15:23
Sergey Berezovskiy
185k23312361
answered Nov 28 '13 at 15:23
Sergey Berezovskiy
185k23312361
answered Nov 28 '13 at 15:23
Sergey Berezovskiy
185k23312361
answered Nov 28 '13 at 15:23
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This assumes the panel is directly contained by the form. For it to work regardless of the container, you can use the panel itself and pass (0, 0):Point location = panel.PointToScreen(new Point(0, 0));
– Idle_Mind
Nov 28 '13 at 16:15
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This assumes the panel is directly contained by the form. For it to work regardless of the container, you can use the panel itself and pass (0, 0):Point location = panel.PointToScreen(new Point(0, 0));
– Idle_Mind
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This assumes the panel is directly contained by the form. For it to work regardless of the container, you can use the panel itself and pass (0, 0):
Point location = panel.PointToScreen(new Point(0, 0));– Idle_Mind
Nov 28 '13 at 16:15
This assumes the panel is directly contained by the form. For it to work regardless of the container, you can use the panel itself and pass (0, 0):
Point location = panel.PointToScreen(new Point(0, 0));– Idle_Mind
Nov 28 '13 at 16:15
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