How do I......

[Oaksnaf]

I am not smart with computers. So stay with me for a little while.

I am wondering how complex it is to program something like a mouse click.

For instance. Lets say I want to click the Submit New Thread Button. Well as soon as that command has been processed. Is it possible to program the mouse, or computer or something to IMMEDIATELY move to the top of the page and press FORUMS??

Basically can I write a program that clicks ENTER on various spots on the screen in sequence?

If any of that makes sense.....


Thanks!

 

[DamianBis]

what game are you trying to "bot"

 

[Oaksnaf]

what game are you trying to "bot"

It's for gambling websites.

 

[Mr Eagle]

Mouse macros are possible, I suppose... never really contemplated it.

 

[Conan Troutman]

I used a scripting program called AutoIT quite a few years back which was not overly difficult to figure out. Don't know it's it's still around or not, but that could be worth looking at. You can save the script as an exe, and in the code put mouse co-ordinates.

Didn't it for websites though, I used it for a Game Emulator frontend which would load games in various emulators (N64, PSOne etc). The front end opened them via command line, but one emulator had no command line options, so I used a combo of sending keys and mouse co-ordinates and mouse clicks to open whichever game I selected in the frontend. At the time, the only coding I knew was basic html, and I didn't find it too difficult to figure out AutoIT.

Anyway, I imagine you'd need the window to be maximized and the button to be in the same position each time to do it that way.

 

[Oaksnaf]

Thanks for your help. Appreciate it as I have just downloaded AutoIT V3 and will have a little bit of a play around.

 

[Conan Troutman]

sorry man I didn't think of it before, but if you're only using a website, a plugin for Firefox called DejaClick may be worth looking into also. I were thinking more along the lines doing mouse movement before, but if it's a website, there's a chance you wont need to replicate mouse movements.

I used it once, if I remember right, to setup logging into my modem, and then pressing reset, and closing the tab, just by clicking on a bookmark icon. I think from memory it will use the id or name of submit buttons from the source code, so if the website is setup that way, you may get around using mouse movements. It probably does more stuff too - I can't really remember too well to be honest. It it easier to use than AutoIT, but may still require some trial and error to get it working, if it works at all. Probably worth checking out that first I reckon. I think it will try to record what you do with your mouse (and capture the id/name), but not actually physically move your mouse when played back, like AutoIT.

Also with AutoIT it may work better by trying to send key strokes rather than mouse movements. I would test on the webpage if you can navigate through the page using TAB or SHIFT-TAB, and ENTER. If you can press keys to navigate, then send the key strokes rather than mouse co-ordinates, as that would be much more reliable to do it right each time. However you would probably want to put a delay before/after some key presses if a new page is loads after submitting a new thread.

I reckon there's a fair chance DejaClick would do the job though.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3262