How can we get the coordinates of the current text input globally

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How is it possible to get the coordinates of the current text input globally? I am familiar with Quartz Event Taps and NSEvent API for monitoring events, but I have not yet found a way to figure out where on the screen text input is occurring. Is there an API I am missing?

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You can try the Accessibility API.

Take a look at AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue(... kAXFocusedUIElementAttribute ...)

Once you have the focused element, you can grab screen coordinates from it.