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Is there any way to simulate clicks/typing to an inactive window using Python? - Nwb - Jun-11-2018
By the way, I'm a windows user. A lot of windows-automation scripting programs have this function (although not always effective) so I was wondering if it can be implemented in Python, or I will have to collaborate two scripts from two different languages.
Also do note that I am a complete newbie to programming itself so I won't understand any technical terms, in fact I have not even read most of the tutorial (from docs) yet (yes I'm lazy. So I would appreciate if you give more context like a brief description and suggestions.
Also, would it also be possible to do this on Mac? And since we're at it, would it also be possible in Android and IOS?
Anyways, I appreciate that you read the thread.
RE: Is there any way to simulate clicks/typing to an inactive window using Python? - Larz60+ - Jun-11-2018
Here's one way:
first install https://pypi.org/project/PyAutoGUI/
use:
pip install PyAutoGUIthen to emulate a mouse click:
import pyautogui pyautogui.click()You can look at the source to see how it's done.
If this is being used in response to an interactive query, you might want to examine expect: https://github.com/sumeet/expect
expect was written by Don Libes of NIST and has been around (for 'C') for a long time. Great for automating demos.
This can be installed with pip as well