Moving the cursor in Java

Question

I want to make an app that measures the cursor's distance from the center of a component and then moves the cursor back to the center (like most PC video games do). Does anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

Robot class can do the trick for you. Here is a sample code for moving the mouse cursor:

try {
    // These coordinates are screen coordinates
    int xCoord = 500;
    int yCoord = 500;

    // Move the cursor
    Robot robot = new Robot();
    robot.mouseMove(xCoord, yCoord);
} catch (AWTException e) {
}

Answer 2

Hi this will just be adding on. I use a Raspberry PI a lot so I've had to learn how to optimize my code this will be a lot shorter.

try {
    //moves mouse to the middle of the screen
    new Robot().mouseMove((int) Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize().getWidth() / 2, (int) Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize().getHeight() / 2);
    //remember to use try-catch block (always, and remember to delete this)
} catch (AWTException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

don't forget to import:

import java.awt.*;