Getting cursor position from grid view

Kok

Hi! I have a grid view where I would like to get the cursor position from it when user fired event key up. I try to use code as below but it failed because the X and Y position from cursor.position is always out of range. Does anyone know how to solve it? Thanks.

private DataGridViewCell clickedCell;
Point cursorPos = dg_item.PointToClient(new Point(Cursor.Position.X, Cursor.Position.Y));
                DataGridView.HitTestInfo hit = dg_item.HitTest(cursorPos.X, cursorPos.Y);
                if (hit.Type == DataGridViewHitTestType.Cell)
                {
                    MessageBox.Show("true");
                    clickedCell =
                        dg_item.Rows[hit.RowIndex].Cells[hit.ColumnIndex];
                }

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Niradhip Chakraborty18y ago
You can use GetCellDisplayRectangle method of DataGridView, for example
it dispaly position of current cell:

DataGridViewCell cell = dataGridView1.CurrentCell;
Rectangle r= dataGridView1.GetCellDisplayRectangle(
dataGridView1.CurrentCell.ColumnIndex
, dataGridView1.CurrentCell.RowIndex , false);

MessageBox.Show(r.ToString());
Kok18y ago
Yes I am looking for X and Y position in data grid view cell but the problem is each time i run these few lines of codes I will get -ve calue for hit.Column and hit.row. Do u know how to solve it? Thanks.
Alex18y ago
I'm assuming you're looking for the X and Y for when the mouseUp happens, not keyUp. In that case, just use the mousekeyupevent like this:

private void dataGridView1_MouseUp(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(e.X + " , " + e.Y);
        }