top / Left to X Y cordinates

[Antithott]

Hi,

Im trying to make a picture box move with the mouse on mousedown event. Im getting the mouse X and Y cordinates then i wanna pass those on to the picture box, and have a timer update mouse XY to picture XY. the problem is that i cant find a way to modify the XY of the picture box, i can only do it by changing top and left etc, but those cordinates dont match the mouse XY so the picture box moves kinda randomly.

So in the end, im asking if anyone could show me a way to change the picture XY instead of useing top / left.. or a way to get top / left to match the mouse XY.

- anti

 

[ZmrAbdulla]

see thread796-1152284 might be helpful.

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[earthandfire]

Thanks Zameer, I was looking for that one to add to the new My Archive.

 

[ThatRickGuy]

Why not just set the picture box's top and left properties to equal the from.MousePosition.X and frm.MousePosition.Y?

Or if you need it to offset (so that clicking in the middle of the picture box doesn't make it jump), On mouse down get the picturebox.mouseposition.x and .y and subtrack those values from the form.mouseposition.x and .y and set the picturebox.top and .left to that value.

-Rick

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[caoamo]

In addition to Rick's suggestions, I would drop the timer event, and set a boolean flag variable. Set it to true in the MouseDown event, and then in the Form's MouseMove event check the flag, and set the picturebox's location to the mouse's location. Set the flag back to false in the MouseUp Event.