From: Detlef Reichl <detlef.reichl@...>
Date: 2005-07-30T22:39:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Simulating Mouse Dragging

Am Samstag, den 30.07.2005, 05:01 +0900 schrieb Erik Veenstra:
> Is it possible to simulate a mouse drag event in a browser (or
> any program in general) with Ruby? Something like:
> 
>  dragmouse(x1, y1, x2, y2)
> 
> or
> 
>  dragmouse("windowname", x1, y1, x2, y2)
> 
> Either Windows or Linux (Xfree86).

If you realy want to do it in a browser the simplest way would be to
capture the MOUSEMOVE events in javascript.

Another way it to build an app with Gtk+. There you have complete mouse
controll and allso got image handling. The advantage over the browser
solution is, that it would run on Linux, OS X and Windoze. Within
javascript you have to program around the pittfalls of the different DOM
models.

Cheers
detlef