Hi Everyone,

I have been having a hard time understanding how to obtain a Widget's absolute coordinates relative to the upper left hand of the screen.

For instance, if I have a Widget in the middle of the screen and my screen is maximized to cover the full area of my display, I would want the Widget coordinates relative to the screen.

I can obtain the 'relative' coordinates of the Widget relative to the parent Widget. However, I can't seem to get a Widget relative to the Screen.

I have read that I should use 'XtTranslateCoords' to get the screen coordinates of the Widget. However, it only ever seems to return the x,y cordinates relative to the parent Widget.

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Position x;
Position y;

Widget widgetMiddleScreen;

/*...*/

XtTranslateCoords(widgetMiddleScreen, (Position)0,(Position)0, &x, &y);

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For instance, I have the root widget, then I have a frame widget, then I have a button widget within the frame widget that falls in the middle of the Frame. Now, I want to get the x,y coordinates of the button widget (which is in the middle of the display) relative to the Screen and not relative to it's parent (in this case the Frame widget).

Ideas?

Thanks!

Jason