Getting Mouse Coordinates in Swift

Question

Swift newbie here.

I\'ve been having trouble with a task that should be trivial. All I want to do is get the x,y coordinates of the mouse cursor on-demand

Answer 1

You can get the current mouse location in this way:

• Declare this in your view controller class:

  var mouseLocation: NSPoint? { self.view.window?.mouseLocationOutsideOfEventStream }
  

• Then, you can get the current mouse location and convert in your desired view coordinates:

  if let currentMouseLocation = self.mouseLocation{
  
       let pointInTargetView = self.**targetView**.convert(currentMouseLocation, from: self.view)
  
  }