---
title: "system.gui.convertPointToScreen"
description: "Converts a pair of coordinates that are relative to the upper-left corner of a component to be relative to the upper-left corner of the entire screen."
---

# system.gui.convertPointToScreen

> Converts a pair of coordinates that are relative to the upper-left corner of a component to be relative to the upper-left corner of the entire screen.

This function is used in **Python Scripting**.

## Description
## Client Permission Restrictions
This scripting function has no [Client Permission](../../../ignition-modules/vision/vision-project-properties/vision-project-properties.md#vision-permissions-properties) restrictions.

## Syntax
`system.gui.convertPointToScreen(x, y, event)`

### Parameters
Type | Parameter | Description 
------- | ------- | ------
Integer| `x` | The X-coordinate, relative to the component that fired the event.
Integer| `y` | The Y-coordinate, relative to the component that fired the event.
EventObject| `event` | An event object for a component event.

### Returns
**Tuple** - A tuple of (x,y) in screen coordinates.

### Scope
Vision Client

## Code Example
```python title="Code Snippet - Getting Location of Mouse Click"
# This example gets the coordinates where the mouse is (from the corner of the monitor) and displays them in a label.
# Get the screen coordinates of the pointer and write them to a label.
# For this example, the code was placed on the root container of a window under the mouseClicked event handler.

coords = system.gui.convertPointToScreen(event.x, event.y, event)
event.source.getComponent('Label').text = "x: %s y: %s" %(coords[0], coords[1])
```