I'm trying to write a code to control where the mouse clicks. currently, I have the code to press Win + X.
I am trying to figure out what would need to be done in order to have the mouse clicks work accurately despite the screen size/number of screens.
import keyboard
winx = keyboard.press_and_release("windows + x" )
As the code stands the current click I need is to click system. I will need to click other things throughout the full code but currently figuring out the best way to click "system" is the goal. I've tried clicking based on the location but because of multiple screens/ the size of the screens this isn't accurate.
Currently looking into how to implement pyautogui's image recognition will update as I go.
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I am writing a python script that automates running a program and performing different tasks within the program. My main problem is figuring out how to click buttons and interact with the GUI of the program to be controlled.
I am currently using the pyautogui library and using pyautogui.click(X,Y) to advance through prompts and click on different menus and menu items. The problem with this approach is that I am relying on a separate script to inform me of the coordinates of interest in my environment by telling me the coordinates of where my cursor is hovering. This probably will not work on other machines and just seems like a one case solution.
My question is how can I automate using a program in windows (clicking around) without having to hard code the exact position of the items I need to click?
For example, If I need to click a "ok" box to accept some setting, how can I make Windows grab the program window, read through the options and click what I need without any prior knowledge of the position of the dialog box and where the "Ok" button is located?
Code:
import pyautogui as gui
gui.click(x,y)
The way you can do this using pyautogui is with their locating methods. You will need a picture (for example of the OK box) and then you can have pyautogui find it on the screen and give you its coordinates. Check out the official documentation on this.
I have a script on python that emulates mouse click depending on certain images on the screen, using pyautogui. My question is, is there a way to click the image without actually using the mouse ?
I have successfully found out how to move, drag, and click in Minecraft with python code. The only thing is that I have gotten the cursor to work in the inventory/crafting menu. One line I used to go up was
pyautogui.moveRel(0, -33, duration=0.1)
For some reason, this does not work outside the crafting menu. I am not able to move the camera in the open-world part of Minecraft. I had a problem with the keyboard as well, it would type the keys I would want it to in a text box but not in the real game. I fixed this by using keyboard.press() and keyboard.release() instead of using pyautogui. Pyautogui works for clicking and moving in the crafting menu but not in the real game.
Any thoughts on how to move the camera in-game?
Pyautogui does not work on video games on Windows or any other common OS. I suggest trying https://pypi.org/project/mouse/, as the keyboard function worked for other people.
Pyhon DirectInput Mouse Relative Moving act not as expected
Looking at this, I found the answer. I was trying to move the mouse where the game has a specific directinput I needed to use. I just called MouseMoveTo() with the desired numbers.
For some reason it only works like this MouseMoveTo(0,100,) with the added comma at the end
I got it to work by turning off Raw Input in the Mouse Settings. Which are in Options > Controls > Mouse Settings > Raw Input
I am currently working for an automatic screen capture program in Python3. While developing it, I ran into a couple of issues on Windows tooltip(infotip) boxes.
What I need to do is this:
1. First I need to find out whether there is any tooltip(infotip - a small text box appearing when a mouse cursor is hovered on an icon or a button) at a specified mouse coordinates. (e.g.) When a mouse cursor is moved to (300, 300) in the main monitor and hovered for a while, does a tooltip box appear? I hope I can get the result with a boolean variable if possible.
2. (main problem) If there is a tooltip, how can I get the content(text) in it?
I have tried solving the problems using pywinauto module, but as there is not much documentation about it so I am completely stucked... Can anyone help me with this? Using pywinauto module is not necessary if there is an easy way!!
Thanks in advance!!
I am writing a script to automate repeatedly registering new users for a website (not boosting metrics, not what you think!). I can boil down the process of registering to a series of mouse clicks and typing. I know there are some macro recorders that will let me record how I use the GUI and repeat it, but I need to type something a little different every time - however the mouse clicks are always the same.
Imagining script to look kindof like:
username = "something"
for i in range(0,100):
playback recorded series of mouse clicks A
type username + str(i)
type some other stuff
playback recorded series of mouse clicks B
But I can't find a good tool to record a series of mouse clicks so that I can play them back from either an applescript or a python script.
I found a useful script (http://www.bluem.net/en/mac/cliclick/) I can call that takes in 2 coordinates and clicks. So even if I could find a tool to record the coordinates of mouseclicks that would work!
You can also run JavaScripts in browsers with something like tell application "Safari" to tell document 1 to do JavaScript or tell application "Google Chrome" to tell tab 1 of window 1 to execute javascript.
tell application "Safari" to tell document 1
do JavaScript "document.querySelectorAll('.mainnavs ul li:nth-child(2) a')[0].click()"
delay 1
repeat until do JavaScript "document.readyState" is "complete"
delay 0.1
end repeat
do JavaScript "document.getElementById('tagfilter').value = 'aa'"
end tell
System Events has commands for simulating clicks and keystrokes:
delay 1
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Safari"
click at {76, 117}
repeat with i from 1 to 3
keystroke "aa" & i & return
end repeat
keystroke "a" using command down
end tell
You can see the positions of UI elements from Accessibility Inspector.app. It is part of Xcode, but it can also be downloaded from developer.apple.com/downloads.
If you want to get the screen coordinates of where you want to perform mouse clicks, you can use a free tool I made called MouseTools found here. I made it for just this purpose. You'll want to do something like I show in the example #1 applescript near the bottom of the page. Just move your mouse to a position on the screen and run the applescript to get the coordinates. Note: you'll want to move your mouse to a location and press command-r (while the applescript is frontmost) to run the script in AppleScript Editor.
In addition, I found that clicking at screen coordinates, as Lauri Ranta showed in her applescript using System Events, often does not reliably work. System Events is good at clicking in the Finder however it often has trouble clicking in the window of an application like Safari. If you find that problem too then you can also use the MouseTools to perform the mouse clicks. Again, this is why I created the program and there are examples of how to do this on the web page.
I hope it helps. Good luck.
How about Carsten Blum's Clicclick?
His link
It is a shell app which will emulate mouse clicks at arbitrary screen coordinates. This will work with applescript.
Hopefully you are doing test automation!
Have you looked into using something like Selenium WebDriver instead?