How To Drag And Drop

[fthomas]

Good day all,

I've come across a real problem in automation. I'm using easy video suite and the windows application will only let you add new videos for compilation by clicking in a directory, and dragging it into it's interface. I can find the spot for the interface, but grabbing the file and dragging and dropping - I'm totally stumped!

Help

Frank

[Marcus Tettmar]

A drag drop is made up of the following sequences:

Move Mouse to source location.
Mouse Down
Move Mouse to destination location
Mouse Up.

So, assuming you know the source and destination locations or can determine them (e.g. using image recognition or text positioning or FindObject or something), you would simulate this with:

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MouseMove>x_source,y_source
LDown
MouseMove>x_dest,y_dest
LUp

[fthomas]

Thanks Marcus,

Another quickie question, is there a way to open windows and place them in a particular spot and size them too?

Frank

[Marcus Tettmar]

Yes, you have the following commands:

MoveWindow https://www.mjtnet.com/manual/movewindow.htm
ResizeWindow https://www.mjtnet.com/manual/resizewndow.htm

[fthomas]

Thanks Marcus,

I've discovered these wonderful commands and am using them in my script. Finally got things working nicely.

One thing that I discovered was to allow enough time, especially when opening/closing windows for things to stabilize. I was amazed that I had to permit a good 3-5 sec lag even after the window on one app was opened, or else I'd get erratic behavior.

Frank