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Currently this field stores absolute value that depends on the game window size, which seems impossible to determine.
It'd be more useful if we could obtain the cursor position in screen units (e.g. cursor.x/window_width). Maybe even with character being reference point.

do these help?

screen2realposition
Translate screen coordinates (position relative to the left top edge of the window) to the map coordinates (what is the map position of the place under the cursor).
real2screenposition
Translate map coordinates to screen coordinates.

See also: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=7&t=5917

So, take care if you're going to use that method It might not exist forever.

jeroon wrote:do these help?

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screen2realposition
Translate screen coordinates (position relative to the left top edge of the window) to the map coordinates (what is the map position of the place under the cursor).
real2screenposition
Translate map coordinates to screen coordinates.

Well, those definitely could be used to pile up a function that achieves the same goal, but I wouldn't want to use it on each tick if a simple table field lookup was possible.

Rseding91 wrote:See also: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=7&t=5917

So, take care if you're going to use that method It might not exist forever.

Aww. That's sad. Those were nice way of making custom controls in the mods.

Adil wrote:Aww. That's sad. Those were nice way of making custom controls in the mods.

After reading their response I don't think the methods are going anywhere but they definitely won't be compatible with MP/replays so you'll want to keep that in mind if you do use them.