Simulate Mouse Clicks on Python

Question

I'm currently in the process of making my Nintendo Wiimote (Kinda sad actually) to work with my computer as a mouse. I've managed to make the nunchuk's stick control actually move the mouse up and down, left and right on the screen! This was so exciting. Now I'm stuck.

I want to left/right click on things via python when I press A, When I went to do a search, All it came up with was tkinter?

So my question is, What do I call to make python left/right click on the desktop, and if it's possible, maybe provide a snippet?

Thank you for your help!

NOTE: I guess I forgot to mention that this is for Linux.

Solution 1

python-uinput is very easy to use.

http://tjjr.fi/software/python-uinput/

Here's an example https://github.com/tuomasjjrasanen/python-uinput/blob/master/examples/mouse.py

Solution 2

You can use PyMouse which has now merged with PyUserInput. I installed it via pip:

1. apt-get install python-pip

2. pip install pymouse

In some cases it used the cursor and in others it simulated mouse events without the cursor.

from pymouse import PyMouse

m = PyMouse()
m.position() #gets mouse current position coordinates
m.move(x,y)
m.click(x,y) #the third argument "1" represents the mouse button
m.press(x,y) #mouse button press
m.release(x,y) #mouse button release

You can also specify which mouse button you want used. Ex left button:

m.click(x,y,1)

Keep in mind, on Linux it requires Xlib.

Solution 3

PyAutoGui works superb.. Thanks to Al Sweigart...

An example of mine...

import pyautogui

pyautogui.FAILSAFE = False

for x in range(555, 899):
    pyautogui.moveTo(x, x)

Solution 4

The evdev package provides bindings to parts of the input handling subsystem in Linux. It also happens to include a pythonic interface to uinput.

Example of sending a relative motion event and a left mouse click with evdev:

from evdev import UInput, ecodes as e

capabilities = {
    e.EV_REL : (e.REL_X, e.REL_Y), 
    e.EV_KEY : (e.BTN_LEFT, e.BTN_RIGHT),
}

with UInput(capabilities) as ui:
    ui.write(e.EV_REL, e.REL_X, 10)
    ui.write(e.EV_REL, e.REL_Y, 10)
    ui.write(e.EV_KEY, e.BTN_LEFT, 1)
    ui.syn()

Solution 5

You can try to interface XTE program from the Python script.

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Comments

[Jewenile]

Any idea how to do such tasks without using external libraries/tools?

[oleskii]

@Jewenile, you can manipulate linux uinput kernel module directly. You can see python-uinput source to get an idea how it may be implemented. github.com/tuomasjjrasanen/python-uinput

[Mihai.Mehe]

Pymouse ModuleNotFoundError: No module named unix Try installing pynput

[Tiago Rangel de Sousa]

Thanks! Works perfect