How to click the mouse on another application

Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com
Fri Jan 9 13:21:30 EST 2009


Not sure if this is for something you want to run yourself or if it's  
for distribution, but you can always use QuicKeys.

Bob Sneidar
IT Manager
Logos Management
Calvary Chapel CM

On Jan 9, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:

> Klaus Major wrote:
>> Fact is, you cannot "click in another app" from within Rev!
>> On the Mac you could do this via AppleScript (but I don't know  
>> how:-),
>> no idea of Windows.
>
> Actually I'm not even sure you can do this via AppleScript.  I was  
> looking
> into this a while ago for automated soak testing - couldn't find a  
> way.  You
> can send key presses to another app using the "System Events"  
> accessibility
> mechanism; and via the same mechanism, can 'click on' a control in  
> another
> app, if it's built via the standard Cocoa routines (so for example  
> not a rev
> control, not a page in a browser, not anything in Flash) - but I  
> failed to
> find a way to send a generic mouse click at a location to another  
> app.  In the
> end I had to forget about using Rev, and do the whole thing in Xcode  
> instead.
>
> - Ben
>
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