by Khaldoun Baz (12 Submissions)
Category: Windows API Call/Explanation
Compatability: Visual Basic 5.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Fri 8th October 2004
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
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Limits the Cursor movement to within the form
VBcoders
left As Long
top As Long
right As Long
bottom As Long
End Type
Private Type POINT
x As Long
y As Long
End Type
Private Declare Sub ClipCursor Lib "user32" (lpRect As Any)
Private Declare Sub GetClientRect Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long, lpRect As RECT)
Private Declare Sub ClientToScreen Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long, lpPoint As POINT)
Private Declare Sub OffsetRect Lib "user32" (lpRect As RECT, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long)
Private Sub Form_Load()
'KPD-Team 1999
'URL: http://www.allapi.net/
'E-Mail: [email protected]
Command1.Caption = "Limit Cursor Movement"
Command2.Caption = "Release Limit"
End Sub
Private Sub Command1_Click()
'Limits the Cursor movement to within the form.
Dim client As RECT
Dim upperleft As POINT
'Get information about our wndow
GetClientRect Me.hWnd, client
upperleft.x = client.left
upperleft.y = client.top
'Convert window coördinates to screen coördinates
ClientToScreen Me.hWnd, upperleft
'move our rectangle
OffsetRect client, upperleft.x, upperleft.y
'limit the cursor movement
ClipCursor client
End Sub
Private Sub Command2_Click()
'Releases the cursor limits
ClipCursor ByVal 0&
End Sub
Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
'Releases the cursor limits
ClipCursor ByVal 0&
End Sub