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Sorry to be stupid, but where does this 'click' binary go so Applescript programs can find it?
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Just a note to say that you are using cocoa objc to access carbon code.
There is a carbon example HIDTestTool on apple's site, which can be easily modified and some CGPostMouseEvents added to move the mouse.
Just if you prefer not mixing your carbon's and cocoa's.

I should perhaps say that I was using the HID example to trap apple remote keypresses and map them to the mouse.
It isn't required to use anything from the HID example to set the mouse loc

Great one, thanks for sharing!
I would add a -h --help flag to be called when no arguments are given.

Do you have 'Enable Access for Assistive Devices' checked in your 'Universal Access' system preferences?

Yup. I'm on 10.5 and using an macbook/external monitor if that makes a difference.

Your script will work with the setting on, but you are more than likely out of luck with it off, the original hint will work regardless.
Also, I haven't tested if telling the finder (or even system events) to click will work across into other applications.

I would think that if you are in another active application that you want to click on, that activating the Finder would deactive the window you need the script to opperate on..

As mentioned in the post, this is for Apps that do not use standard Cocoa UI elements and thus can not be scripted using 'click at.' Finder is a Cocoa app, so this is not necessary, but try using 'click at' on a web page in Safari using a Flash control and you'll be tearing your hair out.

First, I wish to echo sweyhrich's comment about using Click within Applescripts.
I also cannot figure out how to make Click work via a Terminal command. I type command-shift-N to open a command line window, type 'click -x 90 -y 30', click the Run button, and get no detectable mouse click. Instead, a new Terminal bash window appears in the middle of my screen. Could this be due to owning a PowerPC Mac and running robg's binary (that may have been for Intel Macs)?

This won't work unless you check 'run command inside of shell' or actually run it from the command line. I don't know why. But other than that issue it works splendidly for me.

Yes, robg's binary is not Universal, it's intel only.

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Here's how to use this with AppleScript:
tell application 'Terminal'
do shell script '/path/to/click click -x 300 -y 2'
end tell

In the OS9 days a little app existed called: Okidokie Pro. Software zebra designer para mac. Okiedokie could click the default button of any dialog with a defaultbutton within a preset timeinterval. Does anything like that exist for OSX?
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I almost pulled my hair out when applescript did 'half-selects' inside Adobe Flash CS3 - and by the way, that app is a NIGHTMARE to. well, applescript.
This was like 3 days after googling for stuff. So, here, let me put some keywords for the rest of the guys who are stuck with the same problem:
Adobe Flash CS3 AppleScript Problem, Cannot select radio button, Applescript select button

CGPostMouseEvent has been deprecated in SnowLeopard.
You can replace it with something like
CGEventRef mouseDownEv = CGEventCreateMouseEvent (NULL,kCGEventLeftMouseDown,pt,kCGMouseButtonLeft);
CGEventPost (kCGHIDEventTap, mouseDownEv);
CGEventRef mouseUpEv = CGEventCreateMouseEvent (NULL,kCGEventLeftMouseUp,pt,kCGMouseButtonLeft);
CGEventPost (kCGHIDEventTap, mouseUpEv );
With some minor adjustments (see Apple docs) you can also send wheel events, drag the mouse and the like.
Cheers

like it, like it, like it. one thing though.
how do i make the cursor move without clicking? i'd like to do a series of mouse clicks and movements to perform a task. that is, i need to click on my fan menu item, then select the fan speed option, then move it straight across, move it down, pause (long enough for the menu item to be highlighted) then click. reason i want to automate it is so i can control it with speech.
any help is appreciated.
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i just realized.. if i could just incorporate a small wait time between moving the mouse and clicking it, that would solve my problem. is it possible to do that simply in the program? sorry if that's a silly question.. i'm still new to this code, and it all looks mostly chinese to me.

Here are two sleeps routines you could add:
// Possible sleep routines
usleep(100000);
sleep(2);

Hi. I'd like to use a command line tool like this to drag by calling from AppleScript. But I don't know how to compile, and my attempts have been frustrating and have failed. Is there a compiled command line tool that I can use to click and drag? I use cliclick and mousetools, but they don't allow dragging, that I'm aware of. It would be wonderful to find a tool that provides this! Better yet, a tool that does the stuff the others do, but also drags, so I wouldn't have to have a multitude of little command line tools stacked up in my system. Whoever manages to accomplish this will be my hero!

I know this is an old post, but how can I generate click events on remote machines??
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Yes, I know, very old post, but here's a way to drag and drop with a python 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

Hey why won't this work on a PowerPC?

If anyone can help me I'd be very very grateful.
I'm trying to PREVENT the computer from receiving mouse events. I'm using an Intel Mac Mini to control a touchscreen in a kiosk. Once a viewer touches the screen to launch a video, I need to prevent the computer from receiving any other user input including screen touches (mouse events) until the video concludes.
I'm sort of desperate here, and this is for my master's capstone project.
Feel free to e-mail me, also stretch AT stretchphotography DOT COM
Thanks very much.

im also sorry to be stupid but where in the script do you place the x and y coordinates