How do I get PointToScreen in UWP

Question

In WPF something like this would tell me where the border top left corner:

        var point = myBorder.PointToScreen(new Point());

How do I get the same in UWP? I can't find any way to get it.

Thank you :)

Answer 1

You can get the screen coordinates of UIElement in following steps:

1. Get the coordinates of UIElement relative to current application window by following codes:

   GeneralTransform transform = myBorder.TransformToVisual(Window.Current.Content);
   Point coordinatePointToWindow = transform.TransformPoint(new Point(0, 0));
   

2. Get the Rect information of current application window:

   Rect rect = Window.Current.CoreWindow.Bounds;
   

3. Calculate the coordinates of your UIElement:

   var left = coordinatePointToWindow.X + rect.Left;
   var top = coordinatePointToWindow.Y + rect.Top;
   

Answer 2

You can use TransformToVisual method. Use the following code

var transformToVisual = myBorder.TransformToVisual(Window.Current.Content);
var borderCoordinats = transformToVisual .TransformPoint(new Point(0, 0));