Using Ruby on Mac OS X, how to programmatically click on the screen -- and mouse move, mouse down, and mouse up?

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What are the best way(s) to do it? Can ffi, RubyCocoa, or MacRuby do it?

It seems like CGEventCreateMouseEvent or CGPostMouseEvent (deprecated) can be used.

Please give a working example. thanks.

Update: the title of this question updated...

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 27 '11 at 09:29

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In MacRuby your views can catch these events. Just look into the DotView example that comes with MacRuby.

class MyView < NSView 
  def mouseUp event
    puts convertPoint(event.locationInWindow, fromView:nil)
  end
end

answered Mar 27 '11 at 09:29

Thomas R. Koll

sorry, I mean to write a program to click on a point on the screen – nonopolarity Mar 27 '11 at 10:30
ah, okay. Luckily there's an example for this: https://github.com/juanger/fvClicker/blob/master/WebClickerController.rb – Thomas R. Koll Mar 30 '11 at 06:49

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