Re: [Boston.pm] Imitate a mouse click

[Dan Bond]

Thanks very much, that's and the point to vb is all I'll be needing....I'll post later if I figure out how to do it in perl.


> Jeremy is pointing in the right direction. To actually send the click,
> you'll want to send a mouse message to the window underneath the pointer.
>
> See functions WindowFromPoint() and PostMessage()/SendMessage()
>
> These are the C API functions. Not sure about what Perl wrappers look like.
>
> hth,
> Charlie
>
>
>
> At 12:46 AM 2/21/2003 -0500, Jeremy Muhlich wrote:
> >Chris Devers said:
> > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Dan Bond wrote:
> >
> >> Trying to do this in win 95. Also, just realized I forgot to add
> >> something else in, I only want the click to happen in specific mouse
> >> states. As in, if mosue is in that "hourglass" mode, then no click, if
> >> its in normal mode, then click, and I want an actual mouse click on
> >> xxx, yyy cordinates of the screen.
> >
> > ...and you want to do this in Perl? Honestly, I think you're looking at
> > a Visual Basic program, or maybe Python or something else that can play
> > nicely with Windows COM. Last time I tried it, Perl wasn't the best
> > choice for this sort of thing, but VB is more or less made for this.
>
> >Chris - The Win32:: modules that come with ActiveState actually work
> >really well for interfacing with OLE and COM and whatnot.
>
> >Dan - A *really* quick google search turned up 2 options:
>
> >1) Tk::CursorControl, which requires Win32::API under Windows:
> >http://search.cpan.org/author/DUNNIGANJ/Tk-CursorControl-0.2/CursorControl.pm
>
> >2) Read up on win32's SetCursorPos and use Win32::API yourself:
> >http://search.cpan.org/author/ACALPINI/Win32-API-0.20/API.pm
>
> >I didn't look into actually emulating the click or detecting the cursor
> >mode, but if you google around a bit it should be easy to find.
>
>
> -- Jeremy
>
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