Moving mouse cursor in Windows Forms

Question

I've wanted to create a program that moves the cursor by pressing the W,A,S,D keys. I created a form because it was difficult to put the Keyboard.IsKeyDown(Key.W) in the script.

This is the code I have so far:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Windows.Input;

namespace keyboardMouse
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void rdnbtnMove_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (Keyboard.IsKeyDown(Key.W))
            {
                    Cursor.Position = new System.Drawing.Point(      
                        Cursor.Position.Y + 5);
            }
        }
    }
}

However, it throws this error

Member 'Cursor.Position' cannot be accessed with an instance reference; qualify it with a type name instead

How can I fix this? Any help is appreciated.

From the dup: > simple as replacing "Cursor.Position" with "MousePosition". — Lynn Crumbling, Aug 28 '15 at 00:12
You should also take a look at this approach: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/647236/moving-mouse-cursor-programmatically?rq=1 — Lynn Crumbling, Aug 28 '15 at 00:13
Your `Cursor.Position = ...` code is working for me, in C#6. And changing to `MousePosition` directly won't work, since it has no setters. — Pierre-Luc Pineault, Aug 28 '15 at 00:15

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 28 '15 at 00:28

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the Form your code is on has a Cursor property. That's not what you want to access.

Instead fully qualify the type, as the error indicates:

System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position

answered Aug 28 '15 at 00:28

Sam Axe

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Moving mouse cursor in Windows Forms

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