How to get scene coordinates of a stationary mouse cursor in JavaFX 2.2?

Question

When handling any MouseEvent it is easy to get the mouse coordinates by invoking methods such as event.getSceneX() (or event.getScreenX() if that is what we want). Hovewer, I have no idea how to get this information outside the mouse event handling procedure, if there are no mouse events currently?

In my case: after pressing a certain hotkey, I want something to happen relative to the current mouse position. But I am unable to acquire the position information. How should I do it?

This question is similar to [How to get location of mouse in JavaFX?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16635514/how-to-get-location-of-mouse-in-javafx) — jewelsea, Aug 06 '15 at 17:12

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 06 '15 at 15:23

Ok, I found at least one solution, utilising java.awt.MouseInfo, here is the outline of the concept:

if (view.isHover()) {
    Point pointerLocation = MouseInfo.getPointerInfo().getLocation();

    int sceneX = pointerLocation.x;
    sceneX -= view.getScene().getWindow().getX();
    sceneX -= view.getScene().getX();

    int sceneY = pointerLocation.y;
    sceneY -= view.getScene().getWindow().getY();
    sceneY -= view.getScene().getY();

    return new Point(sceneX, sceneY);
} else {
    // mouse not in view
}

How to get scene coordinates of a stationary mouse cursor in JavaFX 2.2?

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