Iframes, usually ads, will look like another page and the parent page will lose track of coordinates. try refreshing the page if things do not work right away. It should work after install, but the web is complicated. It also prevents other default mouse behaviours, like scrolling when you are dragging your cursor. This avoids the browser selecting things when you try to measure. So, the task is to find the coordinates of the mouse over the screen. This returns a point on the entire screen, rather than relative to a particular window. This means that vertical zero is topmost point and horizontal zero is the leftmost point. Point mouseLocation MouseInfo.getPointerInfo().getLocation(). Best coordinates finder program out there (tried 4 programs). 3) The program automatically shows the coordinates of your mouse, so you don't have to click any buttons. It also allows you to measure area dimensions by dragging the cursor, like a pixel ruler.Īs an option, you can set the triggering action for measuring areas to be the keyboard shift key (hold down *shift*, move mouse and hold up *shift*). The top left corner of the screen is (0, 0) i,e, X and Y coordinate is (0, 0). 2) Move your mouse to where you want to find the coordinates of. AutoHotkey.exe is just the interpreter for AHKs scripts, it's no standalone. Positions above and to the left of the client area have negative coordinates, which is important if you track the mouse position outside the window. This extension adds a mouse position tooltip, with its x, and y coordinates. Welcome to the forums Current versions of AHK include a script named Window Spy that replaced the script you are looking for (mostly the same, looks very similar, different name) - you can find it in your AutoHotkey folder. Mouse coordinates are given in pixels, not device-independent pixels (DIPs), and are measured relative to the client area of the window.

Note local files: In the extension details you have to explicitly tell chrome that you want to 'Allow access to file URLs'.

Adds a mouse position tooltip, with its x and y coordinates. This program uses the mouse coordinates in a script bound to , and it used to work at least in tk 4.1 What happens now is that x,y,X or Y are.

Get mouse coordinates