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onClientMouseMove

Client-side
Server-side
Shared

This event is triggered each time the user moves the mouse on top of a GUI element.

Parameters

int absoluteX, int absoluteY
  • absoluteX: the X position of the mouse cursor, in pixels, measured from the left side of the screen.
  • absoluteY: the Y position of the mouse cursor, in pixels, measured from the top of the screen.

Source

element: The source of this event is the GUI element on which the mouse was moved.

Code Examples

client

This example creates a text label at the bottom of the screen that tells player the position of mouse when moved on top of a "TEST WINDOW" (the gui element).

addEventHandler( "onClientResourceStart", getResourceRootElement( ),
    function ( )
        guiCreateWindow( 10, 200, 200, 150, "TEST WINDOW", false );
        textLabel = guiCreateLabel( 0, .9, 1, .1, "", true );
        guiLabelSetHorizontalAlign( textLabel, "center" );
    end
);


addEventHandler( "onClientMouseMove", getRootElement( ),
    function ( x, y )
        if source then
            if not guiGetVisible( textLabel ) then guiSetVisible( textLabel, true ) end
            guiSetText( textLabel, "X: " .. tostring( x ) .. ";  Y: ".. tostring( y ) )
        else
            guiSetVisible( textLabel, false );
        end
    end
)

See Also

Input Events
Input Functions
Reference