Retrieving current mouse coordinates and manipulating them in Mac OS X using Cocoa?

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Published on 2010-05-04T00:08:03Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 0:18 UTC
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Is there any way to get the coordinates of the mouse in Mac OS X? And further could you somehow manipulate the current mouse location using that method to retrieve the coordinates? Or would you have to use something else to move the cursor?

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