click drag - Printable Version

click drag - Printable Version

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click drag - olivers - Jan-29-2020

I wonder if I could be pointed towards what is probably a simple coding solution. I am trying to automate a click and drag on a GUI for an audio looper on mac osx. I can position the cursor , but now I need to click and drag a short distance , in a prescribed timeframe , around three seconds start to finish , and then have the cursor reposition itself at the starting point. I can do it in a very roundabout way with AutoMouseClick and Repeater using macros , but it would seem python should offer a much simpler solution. I have found this piece of script

#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import time
from Quartz.CoreGraphics import * # imports all of the top-level symbols in the module
def mouseEvent(type, posx, posy):
 theEvent = CGEventCreateMouseEvent(None, type, (posx,posy), kCGMouseButtonLeft)
 CGEventPost(kCGHIDEventTap, theEvent)
def mousemove(posx,posy):
 mouseEvent(kCGEventMouseMoved, posx,posy);
def mouseclickdn(posx,posy):
 mouseEvent(kCGEventLeftMouseDown, posx,posy);
def mouseclickup(posx,posy):
 mouseEvent(kCGEventLeftMouseUp, posx,posy);
def mousedrag(posx,posy):
 mouseEvent(kCGEventLeftMouseDragged, posx,posy);
ourEvent = CGEventCreate(None); 
currentpos=CGEventGetLocation(ourEvent); # Save current mouse position
mouseclickdn(60, 100);
mousedrag(60, 300);
mouseclickup(60, 300);
time.sleep(1);
mousemove(int(currentpos.x),int(currentpos.y)); # Restore mouse position

but I think it needs some drag duration input to work as I would like.
I was hoping pyautogui would be useful , but with no experience of these things the installation on mac is rather difficult.

Any help or pointers appreciated.
Oli

RE: click drag - Larz60+ - Jan-30-2020

If you're not too deeply dependant on Quartz, wxpython has some good tools for this.
see: https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/docs/html/dnd_overview.html