> Is there a way to control the mouse cursor's position so > I can tell it to move to X,Y position on the screen and > click or double click automatically? >Also, how can you simulate input from the keyboard?
You can use the Windows API calls to do this, but its not easy and is extremely unreliable since even a small change of your screen layout will mess things up. Check out the documentation for the PostMessage API call on MSDN. > I'd like to be able have a program that can call up a webpage, > click on a text box and type into it as though a person was > actually doing it. But this is usually easier done in other ways by using a robotic browser instead opf trying to control the scren itself. > I know this is kinda an obtuse way of getting things > done, but I think it'd be neat to be able to do it that way. Interesting definition of neat. I presume you went to the same school as Heath-Robinson and others of that ilk?! :-) Personally I call it the path of last resort, if not desparation! > 1. How do you control the cursor relative to the entire screen, > not just locked inside the program's own window. This requires PostMessage events using MouseMove events to position the mouse cursor. But of course if anything moves your real mouse - even by one pixel - it will screw things up. > 2. How do you simulate mouse clicks/doubleclicks. > 3. How do you emulate keyboard input as though a real person is typing. These are both via PostMessage using button click and keypress events. However I'd take a look at the urllib and browser modules plus the COM interface to InternetExplorer. All of these offer better solutions albeit using different tricks to get there. Alan G Author of the learn to program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
