To get the position where the event has happened, in terms of screen coordinates, we can type in the following line of code:

Vec2i mousePos = event.getPos();

Or we can get the separate x and y coordinates by calling the getX and getY methods:

int mouseX = event.getX();
int mouseY = event.getY();

The MouseEvent object also lets us know which mouse button triggered the event by calling the isLeft, isMiddle, or isRight methods. They return a bool value indicating if it was the left, middle, or right button, respectively.

bool leftButton = event.isLeft();
bool rightButton = event.isRight();
bool middleButton = event.isMiddle();

To know if the event was triggered by pressing a mouse button, we can call the isLeftDown, isRightDown, and isMiddleDown methods that return true depending on whether the left, right, or middle buttons of the mouse were pressed.

bool leftDown = event.isLeftDown();
bool rightDown = event.isRightDown();
bool middleDown = event.isMiddleDown();

The getWheelIncrement method returns a float value with the movement increment of the mouse wheel.

float wheelIncrement = event.getWheelIncrement();

It is also possible to know if a special key was being pressed during the event. The isShiftDown method returns true if the Shift key was pressed, the isAltDown method returns true if the Alt key was pressed, isControlDown returns true if the control key was pressed, and isMetaDown returns true if the Windows key was pressed on Windows or the option key was pressed on OS X, isAccelDown returns true if the Ctrl key was pressed on Windows or the command key was pressed on OS X.