Hi everyone,

I can't find the answer to this question anywhere. Is it possible to automate the movement and clicks of a mouse in pure data?

Or maybe there is an easier way of doing what i'm trying to do? In my project, I am having pd sense a google talk phone call being made to my browser (Google Chrome). It will wait for one "ring", then I'd like it to move the mouse and accept the call on the browser. One problem I see with this is that it might stop once it clicks out of the patch..?

I know there are other automation programs out there; I was actually working on some code in AutoIt to accept that call. But i'd like to do it all in pd, if possible.

Thank you for your time,
Sebastian

yeah, it does seem sort of possible, but it never worked too well for me. Your milage may vary,.

check pd-msg in the pd extended help

Hi mod,

Thank you for the tip! I've spent the morning testing this and found that it works well, but it doesn't work outside of pd. Both the keystroke and cursor messages being generated only work within the confines of the pd patch window

If you or anyone happens to know a way around this or another solution, I'd greatly appreciate it.

-Sebastian

seba, did you try [x11mouse] as suggested by the pd-list ?

dwan,

Glad you caught that I downloaded the "aalex" external, but no luck compiling it I have xcode installed, went to the terminal and typed "gcc" followed by the .c file's directory and it gave me a bunch of errors I think I might need to install linux to compile these .c files... but even then, how do they turn into .pd files to be used as objects for [x11mouse], etc?

Would you be able to explain to me how to compile this stuff? I'm running Mac 10.7.5, and i'm in the process of installing Ubuntu via rEFit because I don't know how to compile this stuff in the Mac OS