How do I get the position of a control relative to the window's client rect?

Question

I want to be able to write code like this:

HWND hwnd = <the hwnd of a button in a window>;
int positionX;
int positionY;
GetWindowPos(hwnd, &positionX, &positionY);
SetWindowPos(hwnd, 0, positionX, positionY, 0, 0, SWP_NOZORDER | SWP_NOSIZE);

And have it do nothing. However, I can't work out how to write a GetWindowPos() function that gives me answers in the correct units:

void GetWindowPos(HWND hWnd, int *x, int *y)
{
    HWND hWndParent = GetParent(hWnd);

    RECT parentScreenRect;
    RECT itemScreenRect;
    GetWindowRect(hWndParent, &parentScreenRect);
    GetWindowRect(hWnd, &itemScreenRect);

    (*x) = itemScreenRect.left - parentScreenRect.left;
    (*y) = itemScreenRect.top - parentScreenRect.top;
}

If I use this function, I get coordinates that are relative to the top-left of the parent window, but SetWindowPos() wants coordinates relative to the area below the title bar (I'm presuming this is the "client area", but the win32 terminology is all a bit new to me).

Solution This is the working GetWindowPos() function (thanks Sergius):

void GetWindowPos(HWND hWnd, int *x, int *y)
{
    HWND hWndParent = GetParent(hWnd);
    POINT p = {0};

    MapWindowPoints(hWnd, hWndParent, &p, 1);

    (*x) = p.x;
    (*y) = p.y;
}

Solution 1

Try to use GetClientRect to get coordinates and MapWindowPoints to transform it.

Solution 2

I think u want something like that. I don't know hot to find controls. This segment of code alligns position of a label in the center of window form according to the size of form.

AllignLabelToCenter(lblCompanyName, frmObj)


 Public Sub AllignLabelToCenter(ByRef lbl As Label, ByVal objFrm As Form)
        Dim CenterOfForm As Short = GetCenter(objFrm.Size.Width)
        Dim CenterOfLabel As Short = GetCenter(lbl.Size.Width)
        lbl.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(CenterOfForm - CenterOfLabel, lbl.Location.Y)
    End Sub
    Private ReadOnly Property GetCenter(ByVal obj As Short)
        Get
            Return obj / 2
        End Get
    End Property

Comments

[Andy]

That isn't really useful as there isn't an equivalent to the ".Location" property you are using in the win32 (or at least, none that I've found).

[Shantanu Gupta]

i never used win32. In case u get a solution, plz let me know it too