How to get mouse position in screen space and not relative to widget?

Development Programming & Scripting
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I’m trying to get the mouse position in screen space and NOT in the relative space of the current widget and can’t figure out how to do this.

For example:

  1. The node “GetViewportSize” returns the current resolution of the window the game runs in. This is exactly the space I need, (In my preview case: 1280 x 720)
  2. The nodes “GetMousePositionScaledbyDPI” and “GetMousePositiononViewport” return the mouse location in the relative space of the widget and so the top right corner of the screen equals X = 1920 and NOT 1280, which is the top right corner based on my current play window size.

Any suggestions how I can get the correct mouse position based on the current size of my play window?

Thanks and best regards,
Daniel

2

I would just get this really awesome plugin that adds a bunch of blueprint nodes including get mouse position on screen and get mouse position percentage on screen.

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/item/f6637ea9663447e4b6a0578216992e70

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you can use bool APlayerController::GetMousePosition(float& LocationX, float& LocationY) const.