XNA Window

[Storm33229]

I have an XNA Game Window loaded into a Windows Form and would like to know how I can create some sort of...mouse bounds?

right now, when i check for mouse coordinates it checks the entire form, but i only want it to check when on the xna window and only in the xna window. how do i accomplish this?

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by Storm33229

I have an XNA Game Window loaded into a Windows Form and would like to know how I can create some sort of...mouse bounds?

right now, when i check for mouse coordinates it checks the entire form, but i only want it to check when on the xna window and only in the xna window. how do i accomplish this?

depends on your code. But you should be able to do something like

if(mouseState.X > 0 && mouseState.Y > 0 && 
    mouseState.X < GraphicsDevice.PresentationParameters.BackBufferWidth &&
    mouseState.Y < GraphicsDevice.PresentationParameters.BackBufferHeight)
{
    //Mouse is inside the game window.
}

This is of course for checking inside the game, if you are checking from inside the windows form, thats another story. That would require more work and we would need to see code.

[Storm33229]

Well we have an XNA Graphical Device window inside a windows form, but a game class is never actually defined. We have a class that calls IServices, IGraphicalDevice something-or-another. I don't have the code in front of me right now. I was thinking to myself last night though, I should make it a game window. Apparently I may have been right.

We also need to check the X,Y of the mouse so that we can keep the 48x48 tile attached to the exact mouse location; right now its got a weird offset. Ideas?

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by Storm33229

Well we have an XNA Graphical Device window inside a windows form, but a game class is never actually defined. We have a class that calls IServices, IGraphicalDevice something-or-another. I don't have the code in front of me right now. I was thinking to myself last night though, I should make it a game window. Apparently I may have been right.

We also need to check the X,Y of the mouse so that we can keep the 48x48 tile attached to the exact mouse location; right now its got a weird offset. Ideas?

All this stuff needs to be done inside the game, not the windows form. You need to check the x,y of the mouse per frame.

MouseState mouseState = Mouse.GetState();
int x = mouseState.X;
int y = mouseState.Y;

its that simple.