MouseMove to a different monitor?

[Strahan]

Hi. I sometimes lose my mouse in my triple LCD setup. I wanted a macro that will move the mouse to 100,100 on my primary LCD. I did:

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^+F12::
  MouseMove 100, 100
Return

and if I do CTRL-SHIFT-F12 while on my primary LCD, it's perfect. If I do it on one of the others, it moves to the same 100,100 but on that LCD. Is there any way to force it to go to the primary?

[Hellbent]

Put this at the top of your script and try again

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Coordmode, Mouse, Screen

https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/CoordMode.htm

[Strahan]

Unfortunately, that had no effect. It still acts the same. Actually, upon closer view, it isn't doing exactly what I described after all. I had thought it was going to 100,100 just on the current monitor but when I ran it on my up top LCD it was going to 0, 100. It's like the mouse tried to move left to 100 on the far left LCD but got hung up on the "wall" since one cannot drag the mouse left off that LCD. My LCDs are arranged thus:



(Yes, I'm a nerd lol). Of course, on the other hand, I just moved the mouse to the portrait LCD and tried it and it moved to actual 100, 100 but on the portrait LCD not on primary. Weird.

[Hellbent]

Try running this script on your main monitor.
Move your cursor to where you want to have your cursor sent to and then press numpad1

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#SingleInstance,Force
CoordMode,Mouse,Screen

*Numpad1::
	MouseGetPos,X,Y
	Msgbox, Your Cursor is at X: %X% Y: %Y%
	return
	
*Esc::ExitApp	

What does the message box say?

[Strahan]

It said "Your cursor is at X: 133 Y: 117". Out of curiosity, I moved it to the right LCD and did it and got "Your cursor is at X: 2028 Y: 194" then the upper, third LCD and got "Your cursor is at X: 2324 Y: -629"

PS: I just got the idea that perhaps it may get confused trying to move left but what about right? I changed my script to MouseMove 2400, -700 then tried it and now every time, no matter where my mouse is on whatever LCD, it jumps to the exact same position on the right upper LCD.

So while it isn't exactly where I'd prefer, it is accomplishing my goal of giving me somewhere to look when I can't find my mouse. Which annoyingly seems to happen often, lol. Thanks!

[Hellbent]

It said "Your cursor is at X: 133 Y: 117". Out of curiosity, I moved it to the right LCD and did it and got "Your cursor is at X: 2028 Y: 194" then the upper, third LCD and got "Your cursor is at X: 2324 Y: -629"

PS: I just got the idea that perhaps it may get confused trying to move left but what about right? I changed my script to MouseMove 2400, -700 then tried it and now every time, no matter where my mouse is on whatever LCD, it jumps to the exact same position on the right upper LCD.

So while it isn't exactly where I'd prefer, it is accomplishing my goal of giving me somewhere to look when I can't find my mouse. Which annoyingly seems to happen often, lol. Thanks!

This was in the mouse move doc

The following is an alternate way to move the mouse cursor that may work better in certain multi-monitor configurations:

DllCall("SetCursorPos", int, 100, int, 400) ; The first number is the X-coordinate and the second is the Y (relative to the screen).

Use this and try going back to 100,100

[Strahan]

That worked better; now I can send it to the primary LCD. Thanks again!

[shawn8888]

DllCall("SetCursorPos", int, 100, int, 400) ; The first number is the X-coordinate and the second is the Y (relative to the screen).

I have a 4K monitor with 150% scale and a second monitor with 100% scale. Moving the mouse to the 2nd monitor doesn't work with mousemove function, but, the DllCall function works!
Thanks!