Mouse coordinates outside of a form

Question

I'm trying to make a simple mouse macro program but i cannot figure out how to get the coordinates of the mouse outside of the form itself. I have tried with MousePosition and Cursor.Position but this only seems to take the coordinates inside the form.

I have looked around on the internet but most examples are to capture inside the form/application and the only similar question i found on StackOverflow was unanswered. VB.net -- Getting mouse coordinates outside the form

So, is the a simple way to capture the mouse coordinates outside of its own program? If not a simple way, could someone explain the complicated way a bit? I would really appreciate it!

Answer 1

Assuming WinForms, you can try using just a timer:

Private Sub Timer1_Tick(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
  Me.Text = MousePosition.ToString
End Sub