simulate pressing a mouse button

[vijay6105]

Hi,

 

I hava to simulate pressing a mouse button at a specific object in the window application. Is there any method for doing left pressing of mouse button on specific object?



There is MouseDown method which takes screen X,Y coordinates - MouseDown Method (Desktop Objects)



  

[AlexeyK]

Vijay,

Every test object that corresponds to a window or control contains the Click method that simulates a mouse click at object-specific coordinates. Test objects that correspond to specific control types (buttons, list views, list boxes, etc.) contain specific methods for simulating mouse clicks on an appropriate object (like ClickButton, ClickItem, etc.).

You can record a test with your application and look at the recorded test commands to see how TestComplete simulates mouse clicks. See also Simulating Mouse Actions and Simulating User Actions in TestComplete help.

[vijay6105]

Hello,



I've seen there are action methods for doing mouse clicks like click,drag, drop, hovermouse etc... But I want to do mouse left button press it and hold for some time(10 sec).It is not like click, it is pressing left mouse button for some time. There is 'MouseDown' method which does for the desktop objects. Similarly I want to know is there anything for windows objects 

[AlexeyK]

Vijay,

I see. The MouseDown method is available only for the Desktop object. As you said, this method works with screen coordinates. You need to convert window coordinates to screen coordinates before calling this method. For the conversion, use the WindowToScreen method of your window object.

...

Set pointObj = MyWindowObject.WindowToScreen(10, 10)  ' Convert coordinates

Call Sys.Desktop.MouseDown(VK_LBUTTON, pointObj.X, pointObj.Y) ' Call the MouseDown method

...

[Charles_Liao]

Hello, AlexxeyK I'm new about TC. And I have the same requirement, and I try to write a PressMouse sub in a script, but I get a error when I try. As picture shown below. How should I correct it? Thanks!

[tristaanogre]

First of all... this thread is 7 years old...  Might be better to have posted your own question since there is no guarentee, after 7 years, that the original people are still around.

That said... Since you're using the Desktop object MouseDown method, you have the wrong number of parameters.  See https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/test-objects/members/desktop/mousedown-met...

Remove the ms parameter and you should be good.

[Charles_Liao]

Thanks for reply!
Because the the problem of network, I have simetime can not acess community. 
I have solved this problem. 
The LLPlayer.mouseDown method actually must have 4 parameters including ms and the ms parameter is the delay between Mouse Down and the last action instead of the delay during mouse press.

The sys.desktop.mouseDown method must have 3 parameters except ms. This makes me confused and we should note...

[tristaanogre]

Correct.... there are two MouseDown methods depending upon what the parent object is.  The Deskstop.MouseDown is simply for simulating clicking down on a mouse on a place on screen.  LLPlayer.MouseDown comes from the Low-Level player which ties more closely into the low-level drivers of the Windows OS.  Both methods are documented...  I linked in the Desktop one... here's the LLPlayer one.

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/project-objects/items/llp/llplayer/mousedo...

Making sure you're using the correct method is always a bonus.