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Could you elaborate? What is *exactly* the problem?

So, In total:

Code: ags

  int newguix, newguiy; // declare variables that will hold the GUI's new position

  int overwhat = GetLocationType(mouse.x, mouse.y); // get what the mouse cursor is over

  if (overwhat == 1) { // if mouse is over a hotspot
    // get this hotspot's gui position values from its properties:
    newguix = GetHotspotProperty(GetHotspotAt(mouse.x, mouse.y), "descx");
    newguiy = GetHotspotProperty(GetHotspotAt(mouse.x, mouse.y), "descy");
  }
  else if (overwhat == 2) { // if mouse is over a character
    int charid = GetCharacterAt(mouse.x, mouse.y);
    newguix = character[charid].x + (GetCharacterProperty(GetCharacterAt(mouse.x, mouse.y), "descx"));
    newguiy = character[charid].y + (GetCharacterProperty(GetCharacterAt(mouse.x, mouse.y), "descy"));
  }
  else if (overwhat == 3) { // if mouse is over an object
    int objid = GetObjectAt(mouse.x, mouse.y);
    newguix = GetObjectX(objid) + (GetObjectProperty(objid, "descx"));
    newguiy = GetObjectY(objid) + (GetObjectProperty(objid, "descy"));
  }

  SetGUIPosition(THEGUINAME, newguix, newguiy);

How do I get it to display OVER the hotspot rather than at the top-left of the screen?

EDIT:

I've done it. Just modify the two numbers on the box after you click off the "properties box, right? Thanks a million. 

That's not really what I asked for. I want to have the text at a specific place on the hot spot when I roll over it, not moving with the mouse.

And I did search. I found nothing so I posted. 

Ok. My personal two favorite adventure games are Discworld 1 and 2. In them, when you rolled over a thing you could look at or interact with (even a person or item) it would display a piece of text over the object (like if I were looking at a house, rolling the mouse over the house would make the words "house" appear in the middle of the house hotspot)

I want to emulate this. How?