topic Re: Get the mouse coordinate without click in Revit API Forum

Get the mouse coordinate without click

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 01:44:42 GMT

Is it possible to get the mouse postion without left ot right mouse button pressed/clicked?

I mean get the mouse coordinate while moving it.

Re: Get the mouse coordinate without click

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 01:58:21 GMT

Re: Get the mouse coordinate without click

Revitalizer — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:40:12 GMT

System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position;

Re: Get the mouse coordinate without click

augusto.goncalves — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 13:39:14 GMT

This is a tricky one. The Windows Cursor Position (mentioned above) will return the screen coordinate, where from 0,0 to your screen resolution. This is not the project coordinate.

In fact the project view on Revit is not complex, it depends on the view... or the current view can be a schedule...

Anyway, this is not exposed on Revit (project coordinate at a given random time).

But the real question is what you need here, can you provide more details? Maybe we have an alternative... is it during any command?

Re: Get the mouse coordinate without click

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 00:17:06 GMT

Dear Augusto,
See my another post First.
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api/how-to-let-revit-show-a-rectangle-when-picking-points/td-p/5556194

What I really want to do is to draw a rectangle during creating my object to indicate user where the object will be placed (for a good user experience ).Just like the appearance when creating a wall.

As Jeremy's answer, I suppose revit cannot support it.
So for a walkaround solution,I think if I can get the moving cursor coordinate of the view , could I draw a rectangle myself?

Is my information enough?Sorry for my english...