[Trigger] Mouse position (X, Y)

[lolreported]

Hey! Well, is it possible to detect the in-game mouse-pointers X and Y coordinates?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Nope, You can get when the mouse hovers over or clicks on trackables, but they are problem prone. There is no way to get the X and Y coordinates of the mouse realtive to the screen or teraine.

You can tell when the mouse is over a trackable which can be converted into a cordiante on the WC3 map, but they can not be destroyed once created and are prone to problems in multiplayer as each player needs their own local one.

 

[lolreported]

Hm, probably all this hover and click on trackables requires JASS? But it sounds interesting, can you give me a tutorial for trackables?

 

[Dr Super Good]

I would advise against it, it generally lacks real use as you can purly get the location of the trackable, and once they are made, they can not be altered in any form. Also you can not get who is hovering over them in multiplayer, meaning you have to make 1 trackable for each player playing the game at that time on everyone's PC inorder to tell which player is hovering over it.

Next to the odd use here and there, they are generally used for full screen item systems and little more.

 

[lolreported]

Ok, thanks anyway I'll see what I'll do next instead of this.

+rep

 

[The Reborn Devil]

RtC got a native which can find the x and y coordinates of the mouse.
Look here: RtC Forum

 

[Element of Water]

I thought that stuff didn't work anymore?

 

[The Reborn Devil]

It works with the same version NewGen works with.

 

[Element of Water]

NewGen works with 1.22, just not wc3err and stuff, but RtC doesn't work ingame in 1.22.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Yes, but it destroys an battlenet support for the map as it is a third party .exe hack (although a good one) which battlenet does not support.

 

[Element of Water]

someone needs to set up private RtC enabled servers

 

[The Reborn Devil]

someone needs to set up private RtC enabled servers

They were talking about doing that.

 

[Element of Water]

Ooh sounds nice - or was that just for WarSoc/Wc3:WoW?

EDIT:
We're getting too off topic here...

 

[Deaod]

the currect X-Y-Coordinates RtC offers are relative to your desktop and not related to ingame coordinates. However, MindWorX has released a testapp that retrieves ingame x and y coordinates from your ram. But even that cant be used for triggering yet. So, unless you dont have a problem with trackables, you cant.

 

[Element of Water]

The coordinates relative to your desktop can then be converted into coordinates relative to wc3 based on camera position and angle.