added getCenterOfActiveScreen in Screen class

[danielpetrica]

Added a function that Returns the center of the screen where the mouse pointer is placed. Useful if you want to initialize a smaller window and place it exactly in the center of screen.

Closes this discussion idea #373

I ran pest and all tests passed. Also ran Phpstan on the specific file. Maybe it could be a good idea to add a test for it but don't know how.

[simonhamp]

I'd like to see part of this exposed via our Electron web service instead of being fully implemented here as Electron already supports some of what you're doing here. For example, you can use:

• getCursorScreenPoint to get the cursor position (this is what we use for the cursorPosition method) and then pass it to...
• getDisplayNearestPoint to get the display that intersects with that Point.

I'm imagining a Screen::active() method which returns the details of the currently active display.

This would be a useful primitive for other use-cases, not only for finding the center of the "current" screen. It would also be slightly more performant, as it would only need to make one cross-service API call instead of two (you're calling cursorPosition and displays).

Are you up for adapting this PR and creating the Electron side @danielpetrica?

[danielpetrica]

@simonhamp Sounds like a better and cleaner idea. At the time I didn't have much confidence on working on electron. I'll try to look into it as this would simplify my work over time too

[simonhamp]

No worries. I've created the Electron side for you - so you'd just need to use this in your PHP code.

[danielpetrica]

Thank you a lot I'll change it this weekend then