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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: How to get the mouse position with JEWL?
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On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:51:00 +0000 (UTC), tmoran@acm.org wrote:

> This works for me for Windows
>     type Points is record
>       x,y : interfaces.c.int;
>     end record;
>     type bool is new interfaces.c.int;
>     function GetCursorPos(point : access points) return bool;
>     pragma import(stdcall,GetCursorPos, "GetCursorPos");
>     current : aliased points;
>     ...
>       if getcursorpos(current'access) = 0 then
>         -- current now has mouse position
>       else -- Windows error

Surely it is better to use it from win32ada than making own binding.

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