How do I get the position of the mouse?

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Canvas item selection by mouse click
There are 2 problems when looking for items at a given position:

On mouse click, you get window coordinates, but you need canvas coordinates for "find".

Canvas find returns only the ID of the item, that's a plain number. You will need to retrieve the parameters of the item by further functions.

Example:

canvas .c1
bind .c1 <Double-1> { onDblClick %x %y }
proc onDblClick {x y} {
        set x [.c1 canvasx $x] ; set y [.c1 canvasy $y]
        set i [.c1 find closest $x $y]
        set t [.c1 gettags $i]
        puts "$i $t"
}

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In reply to Re: Tcl/Tk mouse events by Anonymous Monk
in thread Tcl/Tk mouse events by Sandy

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