Moving mouse to a spot and clicking

Rob, You’ve been a great help so far . This works pretty good yeah. But i need to repeat it cause i have a website with this security program that has to be refreshed every 2 minutes. When im in school ( im 14 ) i can’t do this, so i want a script to do it for me. Thanks so far, and more help would be great !!

Thanks,

Vince

Maybe this will work when saved as a stay open application. Once launched, it should run the code every 120 seconds.

on idle
	tell application "Finder" to activate
	
	tell application "System Events"
		set visible_apps to application processes whose visible is true
		repeat with app_ in visible_apps
			if name of app_ is not "Finder" then
				set visible of app_ to false
			end if
		end repeat
	end tell
	
	tell application "Extra Suites" to ES move mouse {460, 515}
	delay 1
	tell application "Extra Suites" to ES click mouse
	return 120 -- seconds
end idle

– Rob (who will be extremely mad if he finds out that this is used to break the rules at school)

Thanks ! .

Lol, Naa, I won’t run it at my school’s computer. Just at home And it’s allowed anyways. You’re the best man. Is it ok if i PM you if i need more help ?

Thanks a lot,

Vincenzo

It’s ok to PM me but others with similar needs might benefit if we keep the discussion here.

– Rob

Oh wait, it seems not to work. Nothing happens :? Weird

If you run it in Script Editor, it will do nothing. It must be saved as a stay open application and then launched (the same way you launch other applications).

If there’s no chance that the computer will be used while the script is running, the following version will be more resource friendly since it doesn’t need to hide the applications every time it executes.

tell application "Finder" to activate

tell application "System Events"
	set visible_apps to application processes whose visible is true
	repeat with app_ in visible_apps
		if name of app_ is not "Finder" then
			set visible of app_ to false
		end if
	end repeat
end tell

tell application "Extra Suites" to ES move mouse {460, 515}
delay 1

on idle
	tell application "Extra Suites" to ES click mouse
	return 120 -- seconds
end idle

– Rob

k Thanks man. I think this is working . What if i want to add extra mouse movements and clicks… So thesame thing but more in one serie ? Lol, I know i keep on wining but since were solving problems, might aswell solve’em all now

Thanks in advance,

Vince

I would probably use something like this, where you can add more move and click commands to the idle handler (at the end of the script).

tell application "Finder" to activate

tell application "System Events"
	set visible_apps to application processes whose visible is true
	repeat with app_ in visible_apps
		if name of app_ is not "Finder" then
			set visible of app_ to false
		end if
	end repeat
end tell

on idle
	tell application "Extra Suites"
		ES move mouse {460, 515}
		ES click mouse
		-- more move and click commands here
	end tell
	return 120 -- seconds 
end idle

– Rob

As i’m a complete newbie, and i didnt really get what u ment in your last post, could you give me an example of this script with another move and click mouse code ? Ill insert the Co-ordinates BTW, i tried running your previous codes as an app. But it opens and disappears, and then nothing happens. is this normal ?

thanks,

Vince

Here’s an example with an additional move and click command.

tell application "Finder" to activate

tell application "System Events"
	set visible_apps to application processes whose visible is true
	repeat with app_ in visible_apps
		if name of app_ is not "Finder" then
			set visible of app_ to false
		end if
	end repeat
end tell

on idle
	tell application "Extra Suites"
		ES move mouse {460, 515}
		ES click mouse
		ES move mouse {500, 500}
		ES click mouse
	end tell
	return 120 -- seconds 
end idle

When you save the script in Script Editor, save it as an application and make sure that “Stay Open” is enabled. This is an option in the save dialog. The dialog might/should look something like this, depending on which version of Script Editor is in use:

Hey rob, You’re the man ;). This is good. But it seems that the mouse clicks on 2 places really quick and then waits another 120 seconds. is it possible that it clicks on a certain point, waits 10 seconds, click on another point, wait 10 seconds, click on a point and then wait 120 seconds and repeat the process ?

I know it’s hard, and i understand if you’re busy doing more important things then helping a n00b like me who only needs a script to protect his website .

Thanks in advance though,

Vincenzo

You can insert delays, measured in seconds, where you need them. Here’s an example.

on idle
	tell application "Extra Suites"
		ES move mouse {460, 515}
		ES click mouse
		delay 10
		ES move mouse {500, 500}
		ES click mouse
	end tell
	return 120 -- seconds 
end idle

– Rob

So Rob, This is the exact code i need ?:

tell application "Finder" to activate

tell application "System Events"
	set visible_apps to application processes whose visible is true
	repeat with app_ in visible_apps
		if name of app_ is not "Finder" then
			set visible of app_ to false
		end if
	end repeat
end tell

on idle
	tell application "Extra Suites"
		ES move mouse {80, 669}
		ES click mouse
		delay 10
		ES move mouse {455, 400}
		ES click mouse
		delay 10
		ES move mouse {492, 634}
		ES click mouse
	end tell
	return 120 -- seconds 
end idle

Thanks in advance,

Vince

Yep, that looks like it should work.

– Rob

Ok Thanks ! I’m gonna try. Wil it also work when on sleep mode ?

–Vince

No, the computer, but probably not the screen, needs to be awake.

– Rob

I am looking for an easy solution to copy text from a web page (always in the same location) into to a specific location in Word and print.

tell application “Google Chrome”
activate
tell application “Google Chrome” Get id=“customer-name-first” {not sure how to execute this part}
tell application “System Events” to keystroke “c” using command down
end tell

tell application “Microsoft Word”
activate

tell application “Microsoft Word”
set findRange to find object of selection
tell findRange
execute find find text “xxx” replace with “CLIPBOARD” replace {not sure how to get the clipboard pasted here}
replace all
tell application “System Events” to keystroke “v” using command down
tell application “System Events” to keystroke “p” using command down
end tell

ANY help would be very much appreciated

I don’t have Word installed on this mac and also Using safari (Safari and Chrome are pretty much the same). The code you’re looking for should look something like this:

tell application "Google Chrome"
set theText to do javascript "document.getElementbyId('customer-name-first').innerHTML;" of document 1
end tell

tell application "Microsoft Word"
set text of document 1 to theText
end

Hello.

Look here for how to execute Javascript in Chrome with Applescript

Save the post to disk, it disappeared for me once.

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