How do I get the mouse position relative to the window, not the whole screen?

Question

I am developing an XNA game. I run it in window mode.

I need to handle mouse events, but when I use the Mouse class from Xna.Framework.Input.Mouse, I get the the mouse position on the whole screen.

I use this code:

MouseState state = Mouse.getState();
Point position   = new Point(state.X,state.Y);

Rectangle hitbox = new Rectangle(180, 410, 14, 14);

if (area.Contains(mousePosition))
{
    //fire event
}

How do I detect the mouse position within the current game window?

Answer 1

Mouse should default to reporting its position relative to the game window, but can be configured by assigning the appropriate window handle to Mouse.WindowHandle.

The documentation is here.