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Doug - 27 Aug 2007 09:16 GMT

Hi

I have a form that when a user presses Enter I would like to get the current
mouse position and copy it to the clipboard.

I have tried

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

string possi;

possi = (string) Control.MousePosition;

MessageBox.Show(possi.ToString());

}

but this doesnt work and i get the error "Error 1 Cannot convert type
'System.Drawing.Point' to 'string' "

Any help appreciated..

Doug

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Kevin Spencer - 27 Aug 2007 11:43 GMT

> string possi;
>
> possi = (string) Control.MousePosition;

You cannot cast System.Drawing.Point as a string. You can use the
System.Drawing.Point.ToString() method to get a string representation of the
Point, but that's different. It is a method that returns a string.

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> Doug

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Alex Meleta - 27 Aug 2007 11:47 GMT

Hi Doug,

> possi = (string) Control.MousePosition;

No direct accordance between Point and string, but you're tring directly
cast these types. Use other approaches, e.g. string.Format("{0},{1}", possi.X,
possi.Y) - with avoind of the exception you can also define appropriate format
of string.

> MessageBox.Show(possi.ToString());

the string is already a string. No .ToString() is needed.

Regards, Alex
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