Is there any way to perform a click with code and not a mouse?
This might be a silly question but I'm making a program that records your mouse movements, so that you don't have to keep doing tasks repetitively. I can only record the users mouse movements at the moment.
I would like to know if you can execute a mouse click with code
NOT button1.performclick!
I repeat
NOT button1.performclick!
lol xD Help pls
Thanks
Dopey as -Rob
Do a Google search for mouse_event, which appears to do what you need. It has been superceded by SendInput but that appears to be difficult to use from VB.
I can't advise further as I've not used it.
Hi Dopey,
Base on your post, my understanding of your question is that you need to use the code to trigger the Button click event. But you don't want to use the PerformClick method. You can use the SendMessage API to send Click message to the Button to achieve this.
Public Class Form1 Public Declare Auto Function SendMessage Lib "user32.dll" Alias "SendMessage" (ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, ByVal Msg As Integer, ByVal wParam As Integer, ByRef lParam As IntPtr) As IntPtr Const BM_CLICK As Integer = &HF5& Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click Me.Timer1.Enabled = False MessageBox.Show("click") End Sub Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick SendMessage(Me.Button2.Handle, BM_CLICK, 0, IntPtr.Zero) End Sub Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Me.Timer1.Enabled = True Me.Timer1.Interval = 100 End Sub End Class Code Block
Best regards,
Riquel.
Private Declare Sub mouse_event Lib "user32" (ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dx As Long, ByVal dy As Long, ByVal cButtons As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long) Private Private Code Block
'Set the mouse to the spot you want to click Cursor.Position = New Point(100, 100) 'Send a mouse click event mouse_event(MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN Or MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP, 0, 0, 0, 0) Code Block
That will generate an "actual" click. You can simulate a click on many objects without usings this strategy though.
