Want to get the location of the GameView Window

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I'm trying to make a macro recorder/player for the Unity editor, and I'm having trouble with the mouse input. I'm using this library (https://inputsimulator.codeplex.com/) to set the mouse position and simulate clicks, as I couldn't find a way to do it in Unity. The problem is that I need to know the location of the currently active game view in order to determine where on the monitor to position the cursor.

The following code:

 public static EditorWindow GetMainGameView()
 {
     System.Reflection.Assembly assembly = typeof(UnityEditor.EditorWindow).Assembly;
     Type type = assembly.GetType("UnityEditor.GameView");
     EditorWindow gameview = EditorWindow.GetWindow(type);
     return gameview;
 }

gets me a reference to the GameView, but I couldn't find the information I needed in that class (position.x and position.y only tell me the offset of the drawing area relative to the tab). So does anyone know how I can find the GameView location relative to the monitor in Windows?

Answer 1

I think I got it figured out ...

EDIT: changed it all again.

EDIT 2: added a windows implementation of wkwan's idea (see comments)

The short way on Windows:

parameters: master.width / master.height is the resolution we wanted to have
Screen.width / Screen.height is what Unity is running atm.

This solution is used to convert screen-coordinate input into pixel-exact positions referring to a (master.width, master.height) - resolution.

 [StructLayout( LayoutKind.Sequential )]
 public struct POINT
 {
     public int X;
     public int Y;
     public static implicit operator Vector2( POINT p )
     {
         return new Vector2( p.X, p.Y );
     }
 }
 [DllImport( "user32.dll" )][return: MarshalAs( UnmanagedType.Bool )]
 static extern bool GetCursorPos( out POINT lpPoint );

 public static void Init( PanoramaMaster master )
 {
     Vector2 inputCursor = Input.mousePosition;
     // flip input Cursor y (as the Reference "0" is the last scanline)
     inputCursor.y = Screen.height - 1 - inputCursor.y;
     POINT p;
     GetCursorPos( out p );
     renderRegionOffset = p - inputCursor;
     renderRegionScale = new Vector2( (float) master.width / Screen.width, (float) master.height / Screen.height );
     Debug.Log( "Scale:  " + renderRegionScale + "\nOffset: " + renderRegionOffset + "\n" );
 }

Don't do it like this: Earlier I came up with the following function, which gets the offset of the gameView's rendering region within its containing window's client region. I.e. Unity, or the window around a stand-alone gameview. Then I found some nice WinAPI references to find the missing pieces (window position, size of decorations):

 [DllImport( "user32.dll" )]
 static extern int GetSystemMetrics( SystemMetric smIndex );
 [DllImport( "user32.dll" )]
 static extern IntPtr GetActiveWindow();
 [DllImport( "user32.dll", SetLastError = true )]
 static extern bool GetWindowRect( IntPtr hwnd, out RECT lpRect );
 [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
 public struct RECT
 {
     public int Left, Top, Right, Bottom;
     
     public override string ToString()
     {
         return string.Format( System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, "{{Left={0},Top={1},Right={2},Bottom={3}}}", Left, Top, Right, Bottom );
     }
 }
 public enum SystemMetric : int
 {
     SM_CXSCREEN = 0,  // 0x00
     SM_CYSCREEN = 1,  // 0x01
     SM_CXVSCROLL = 2,  // 0x02
     SM_CYHSCROLL = 3,  // 0x03
     SM_CYCAPTION = 4,  // 0x04
     SM_CXBORDER = 5,  // 0x05
     SM_CYBORDER = 6,  // 0x06
     // [...] shortened ...
 }


 public static Vector2 PixelOffsetFromScreen()
 {
     System.Type T = System.Type.GetType( "UnityEditor.GameView,UnityEditor" );

     EditorWindow gameview = EditorWindow.GetWindow( T );
     Rect Pom = gameview.position;

     System.Reflection.MethodInfo RenderRect = T.GetMethod( "GetMainGameViewRenderRect", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Static );
     Rect ReRe = (Rect) RenderRect.Invoke( null, null );

     RECT WinR;
     GetWindowRect( GetActiveWindow(), out WinR );
     int bw = GetSystemMetrics( SystemMetric.SM_CXBORDER );
     int bh = GetSystemMetrics( SystemMetric.SM_CYBORDER );
     int ch = GetSystemMetrics( SystemMetric.SM_CYCAPTION );
     // try to retrieve the Window's client rect and its position on screen
     Vector2 Res;
     Res = new Vector2( WinR.Left + bw + Pom.xMin + ReRe.xMin, WinR.Top + ch + bh + Pom.yMin + ReRe.yMin );
     return Res;
 }

The final cut it needs: make it also work with a compiled game, where there's no editor available ...

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