How to show live mouse position on tkinter window

Question

i would like to know if there was a way to keep showing the live mouse position on a tkinter window. I know how to find mouse coordinates.

x, y = win32api.GetCursorPos()
mousecords = Label(self.root, text='x : ' + str(x) + ', y : ' + str(y))
mousecords.place(x=0, y=0)

But I need the label to keep updating as and when the mouse moves. Help will be appreciated Thank you!

Answer 1

This will only update the Label when the mouse is inside the tkinter window:

No need to use win32api, tkinter has it built in. We can bind a function to root 's <Motion> key and use the given positional argument event to retrieve the coordinates of the mouse.

from tkinter import Tk, Label

root = Tk()
label = Label(root)
label.pack()
root.bind("<Motion>", lambda event: label.configure(text=f"{event.x}, {event.y}"))
root.mainloop()

Answer 2

You can use after() to periodically get the mouse coordinates and update the label.

Below is an example:

import tkinter as tk
import win32api

root = tk.Tk()

mousecords = tk.Label(root)
mousecords.place(x=0, y=0)

def show_mouse_pos():
    x, y = win32api.GetCursorPos()
    #x, y = mousecords.winfo_pointerxy() # you can also use tkinter to get the mouse coords
    mousecords.config(text=f'x : {x}, y : {y}')
    mousecords.after(50, show_mouse_pos) # call again 50ms later

show_mouse_pos() # start the update task
root.mainloop()