Re: It is possible to emulate the mouse click?

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shell "|xdotool click 1"
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we discussed that already, it's the easiest way.


13.04.2024 21:37, Bruce Steers пишет:
> On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 at 15:04, <roberto.premoli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>     i wrote a gambas program to run on a touch screen.
>     The desktop GUI has in lower part of display a static button that must be pressed to popup
>     the virtual keyboard (1st cliclc popup, second clidk pop down).
>
>     in my main gambas program, i have a TextArea where to type my data.
>     so i must do the follow:
>     1. click in my program TextArea to focus it
>     2. click to popup the GUI virtual keyboard
>     3. type text in GUI virtual keyoar that fill thextArea
>     4. save text pressing a button on my program
>     5. click to popdown the GUI virtual keyboard
>
>     The button in GUI to pop up/down virtual keyboard is always in a fixed position, so I wist to emulate point 2 and 5 using gambas commands.
>
>     I can move the cursor of mouse with mouse.move(X,Y), but I did not find the commad that do the click, (lets call it) mouse.force.Clik=left_mouse_button
>     so, is it possible to emulate the press of mouse buttons? if yes, how?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Roberto
>
>
> I don't think it is reliably possible with gambas.   (it is possible 
> with the command xdotool)
>
> There is no need to fake a button press though
>
> just trigger the button press manually..
>
> btnOpenVirtKeyboard.Value = True
>
> or Form1.btnOpenVirtKeyboard_Click()