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How can I use the Click command without moving the mouse

AFAIK you can't but I am sure you can use sendmessage, assuming the program you are interacting with will accept it.

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Steve F AKA Superfraggle

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Its not a control, but thanks ill look into it

It doesn't need to be a control, sendmessage can be sent to a window, and the mouse messages contain the coordinates of the mouse.

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Steve F AKA Superfraggle

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CAn you give me an example them? What i saw on sendmessage was control

From what MSDN says about WM_MOUSEMOVE you would have to specify the low order(x-coord) and high order(y-coord) words in lParam and I can't find any way to retrieve/set that information, from AHK anyway.

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I dont want to move the mouse, just click at coordinates without the cursor being moved

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CLICK does not need the coordinates.

Or you could say,

Using click moves the mouse. I dont want it to

ControlClick...

Its not a control...

controlclick doesnt have to only click controls, it can click anywhere
please read help file for more information

I like the idea of using PostMessage / SendMessage to try to accomplish this but it doesn't appear that AHK currently allows for that command to have that kind of control by itself. There may be a solution using DllCall or COM but my limited knowledge of that type of AHK usage prevents me from digging into it.

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Well, I was wrong about the difficulty of finding a value for lParam and PostMessage. I was able to send a click from PostMessage in two different programs without moving the mouse. Here are my two tested hotkeys:




A big thanks goes to SKAN and his pictorial using WinSpector Spy to show me that I needed to adjust my options to show the message parameters on one line. You have to monitor the WM_LBUTTONUP messages to obtain the lParam and you can monitor the WM_LBUTTONDOWN messages to obtain the x/y coordinates you clicked at.

While it is an interesting proof of concept, I don't know how useful it is necessarily (to me anyway). Given that I retrieved several lParams for various clicks on the screen I can see that there is a logical alphanumeric naming convention for each x/y coordinate, I just can't pin down what that logic is so I can create the lParam myself. Granted, once you know the lParam for a specific coordinate it appears to be set in stone on your computer, but having to pull an lParam for some coordinate from messages every time you need it seems like a big waste of time.

For another thing, I was not able to make the click work using anything but the window handle (ahk_id %hwnd%). While that doesn't seem like a big deal, if you're a Firefox user, good luck. The window handle you need to send clicks to a webpage changes every time you go to a new page or even refresh your current page. Fortunately the window handle in IE7 is constant under each tab as far as my testing has shown.

In the minor annoyances category I also couldn't make the click work without specifying 0x00000000 in wParam.

I'm delighted to see that it works. The window handle issue will almost surely keep me from trying to use it with Firefox, but it may be useful in other applications with some testing. If someone can find a way to nail down the logic of the naming convention for lParam, that would make this a lot easier to utilize.

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