Cocoa: Getting the current mouse position on the screen

cocoa, mouse, position

Solution

CGEventRef ourEvent = CGEventCreate(NULL);
point = CGEventGetLocation(ourEvent);
CFRelease(ourEvent);
NSLog(@"Location? x= %f, y = %f", (float)point.x, (float)point.y);

Problem

I need to get the mouse position on the screen on a Mac using Xcode. I have some code that supposedly does that but i always returns x and y as 0: ``` void queryPointer() { NSPoint mouseLoc; mouseLoc = [NSEvent mouseLocation]; //get current mouse position NSLog(@"Mouse location:"); NSLog(@"x = %d", mouseLoc.x); NSLog(@"y = %d", mouseLoc.y); } ``` What am I doing wrong? How do you get the current position on the screen? Also, ultimately that position (saved in a NSPoint) needs to be copied into a CGPoint to be used with another function so i need to get this either as x,y coordinates or translate this.

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