Mouse down inside of a controlclick?

[John404]

Hi all, I'm wanting to make controlclick send a mouse down then mouse up after 3 seconds(inside of a window), could I get any assistance with this? Have been searching for over 2 hours!!!

Edited October 22, 2014 by John404

[funkey]

Something like that (untested):

Global $aCtrlPos = ControlGetPos("Title", "", "Control1")
Global $aMousePos_old = MouseGetPos()
MouseMove($aCtrlPos[0], $aCtrlPos[1], 0)
MouseDown("primary")
Sleep(3000)
MouseMove($aCtrlPos[0], $aCtrlPos[1], 0)
MouseUp("primary")
MouseMove($aMousePos_old[0], $aMousePos_old[1], 0)

Edit: Post 666

Edited October 22, 2014 by funkey

[John404]

Something like that (untested):

Global $aCtrlPos = ControlGetPos("Title", "", "Control1")
Global $aMousePos_old = MouseGetPos()
MouseMove($aCtrlPos[0], $aCtrlPos[1], 0)
MouseDown("primary")
Sleep(3000)
MouseMove($aCtrlPos[0], $aCtrlPos[1], 0)
MouseUp("primary")
MouseMove($aMousePos_old[0], $aMousePos_old[1], 0)

Edit: Post 666

Hi, thanks for your reply

Is it possible to make this only work in the specified window just like normal clicks would? (So it doesn't interfere with my actual keyboard/mouse and I can multitask)

Edited October 22, 2014 by John404

[junkew]

no thats not possible but suggestion is to run a virtual machine on your PC then you can multitask it independently

[JohnOne]

I once tried this as a sort of ControlClickDrag, never got there, even with C/++ I got the controlclick but the drag never worked.

[John404]

no thats not possible but suggestion is to run a virtual machine on your PC then you can multitask it independently

Which VM would you recommend? I've had trouble with them in the past.

Thanks for your help.

I once tried this as a sort of ControlClickDrag, never got there, even with C/++ I got the controlclick but the drag never worked.

Ah, thanks for your help. Hopefully someone will create a script for it one day kinda like _Mouseclickplus

[binhnx]

@John404: 
You can simulate the mouse down event using _WinAPI_PostMessage with $WM_LBUTTONDOWN, and using AdlibRegister to simulate the mouse up with $WM_LBUTTONUP, too. But you will *not* get the *click* behavior, because it requires the correct state when the button receive $WM_LBUTTONUP msg.
 
If what you expected is only down, then up, then a pair of _WinAPI_PostMessage is enough.
But if what you want is a mouse click in 3 secs after mouse down, then you need some tweak like this:

$hWndButtonToBeClick = GUICtrlGetHandle($idCtrlButtonToBeClick)

Func ClickWait()
  _WinAPI_PostMessage($hWndButtonToBeClick, $WM_LBUTTONDOWN, 0, 0)
  AdlibRegister(3000, 'ClickExecute')
EndFunc

Func ClickExecute()
  AdlibUnRegister('ClickExecute')
  _WinAPI_PostMessage($hWndButtonToBeClick, $WM_LBUTTONUP, 0, 0)
  ; Need addition message to simulate click!
  _WinAPI_PostMessage($hWndButtonToBeClick, $WM_LBUTTONDOWN, 0, 0)
  _WinAPI_PostMessage($hWndButtonToBeClick, $WM_LBUTTONUP, 0, 0)
EndFunc

Edit:

If you want to click a control in a window outside your script, then try ControlGetHandle instead of GUICtrlGetHandle

Edited October 23, 2014 by binhnx

[232showtime]

really nice tweak binhnx.. love it...