Mouse Example

require 'gosu'

class MouseExample < Gosu::Window
	def initialize
		super 640, 480
		self.caption = "Mouse Example"
		@font = Gosu::Font.new(16, name: "Nimbus Mono L")
	end

	def draw
		msg = sprintf "The mouse is at (%.0f,%.0f).", self.mouse_x, self.mouse_y
		@font.draw(msg, self.mouse_x, self.mouse_y, 0)
	end

	def needs_cursor?
		true
	end
end 

MouseExample.new.show
mouse-example.rb view raw

Gosu makes finding the mouse position easy. Window has two parameters, mouse_x and mouse_y which you can poll to find the location of the mouse.

The one thing to note is that if you want to show the cursor, you’ll want to override the Window#needs_cursor? method and have it return “true”.