From: "brenton.leanhardt@..." <brenton.leanhardt@...>
Date: 2007-05-08T21:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: How to simulate Mouse Click with Ruby, or mouse library

On May 8, 2:44 am, Chad Brewbaker <crb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kid Kid wrote:
>
> > Hi, I would like to simulate a Mouse click through Ruby.  Is there a way
> > to do this through Ruby?  Does Ruby have any library for simulating
> > mouse events. Can someone provide me with some info on this topic.
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> KLUDGE:
> Write a ruby script that outputs this to a file named Bot.java, runs
> javac, then runs the JVM:
>
> import java.awt.AWTException;
> import java.awt.Robot;
> import java.awt.event.InputEvent;
> import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
> class Bot {
>   public static void main(String[] args) {
>     try {
>       Robot robot = new Robot();
>       robot.mousePress(InputEvent.BUTTON1_MASK);
>       robot.mouseRelease(InputEvent.BUTTON1_MASK);
>     } catch (AWTException e) {
>       e.printStackTrace();
>     }
>   }
>
> }
>
> Less of a kludge: Find how java.awt.Robot is implemented in C now that
> Sun has relased Java as open source.
>
> I hope mouse functionality is part of the standard library in Ruby2.
>
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I would imagine you could use
>   public static void main(String[] args) {
>     try {
>       Robot robot = new Robot();
>       robot.mousePress(InputEvent.BUTTON1_MASK);
>       robot.mouseRelease(InputEvent.BUTTON1_MASK);
>     } catch (AWTException e) {
>       e.printStackTrace();
>     }
>   }
>
> }
>
> Less of a kludge: Find how java.awt.Robot is implemented in C now that
> Sun has relased Java as open source.
>
> I hope mouse functionality is part of the standard library in Ruby2.
>
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I would imagine you could use the Robot class from jruby, though I
don't know if jruby is an option in KidK's case.

--Brenton