Control mouse position and clicking

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Thu Nov 29 13:58:47 EST 2007


Glich wrote:
> hi, how can I, control mouse position and clicking from python?
> 
> I want to interact with a flash application inside firefox. thanks.
> 
> ps: I am not using windows.

I've use the external program xte with some success if you don't send it too
many events too quickly. I start it using subprocess and feed it commands. On Ubuntu

  sudo apt-get install xautomation

It uses the XTest extension for X11 to send mouse events to the system. One
could probably easily wrap the xlib API for it using ctypes so you wouldn't have
to bother with an external program.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco




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