What is the best way to get mouse position over form?

Question

I want the best way to get mouse position for Form.

I,m now set the values of mouse position in variables to get them in another methods "Like Form1_Click".

Is there any better way to do that??.

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

How does this work for you?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.onmousemove.aspx

Another alternative is:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.mouseposition.aspx

then to get it on the form use:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.pointtoclient.aspx

Answer 2

xm=System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position.X - this.Location.X
ym=System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position.Y - this.Location.Y

then you should do:

xm - form border x 
ym - form border y