Positron Mouse Position

A lightweight Positron extension that grabs the absolute global X and Y coordinates of the mouse cursor.

Supported Native Environments:

• macOS (Cocoa NSEvent.mouseLocation)
• Windows (user32 GetCursorPos)

Installation

Add this plugin to your Positron application's package.json:

npm i @positronjs/mouse-position

Note: Since it uses the Positron extension engine, it will be automatically discovered and stitched into your application's native binary upon your next npx positron build or npx positron run.

Usage

This extension provides an index.js file with a default asynchronous export. To use it, pass your active Window instance into the function to retrieve the coordinates.

const { Window } = require('positron.js');
const getMousePosition = require('positron-plugin-mouse-position');

const mainWindow = new Window({ width: 800, height: 600 });

mainWindow.on('ready', async () => {
    // Await the exported function and pass in your window
    const position = await getMousePosition(mainWindow);
    
    console.log(`Mouse X: ${position.x}, Mouse Y: ${position.y}`);
});