How to simulate a mouse click and drag?

Question

I want to simulate an event where I left click on the Windows desktop, I drag the mouse a little to create a Selection box to another point, and then keep holding the left button at that point for some time without the Selection box disappearing.

The problem is, I can't get him to keep the Selection box, whenever he gets to the other point the Selection box disappears indicating that the button has been released.

I tried to implement in Python using PyAutoGUI. I tried several ways to do this but still unsuccessfully. Is there any function I'm missing?

import time
import pyautogui

time.sleep(3)

while True:
    pyautogui.moveTo(1080, 380)
    pyautogui.mouseDown(button='left')
    pyautogui.dragTo(917, 564, 1, button='left')
    time.sleep(10)
    pyautogui.mouseUp(button='left')
    time.sleep(2)

@Erik Lopes Did you find a solution for this? – Irina S. Aug 29 '21 at 16:35 — Irina S., Aug 29 '21 at 16:35

score 8 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 18 '21 at 23:04

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Simply removing 2 lines of code and changing dragTo() to moveTo() seems to do what you are trying to do:

import time
import pyautogui

time.sleep(3)

while True:
    pyautogui.moveTo(1080, 380)
    pyautogui.mouseDown(button='left')
    pyautogui.moveTo(917, 564, 1)
    time.sleep(10)

edited Dec 18 '21 at 23:04

Tomerikoo

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answered Jun 12 '20 at 20:59

Alt

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I have a similar task but can't solve it with the solution provided by @Alt. I tried it also with `dragTo()` and `drag()`, but the mouse is clicked only for a short while not the whole way it should be kept clicked down. – Irina S. Aug 29 '21 at 16:34
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@jason-m Kind of, I finally realized that the problem wasn't pyautogui but the application I wanted to use it with. I wanted to draw something on a picture opened with the Window Photo Viewer. There, it didn't work. With other applications (p.ex. MS Paint) it worked with the solution provided by Alt. – Irina S. Sep 13 '21 at 08:51
this worked for this thanks! – RoyalBosS Jan 18 '22 at 12:28

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 18 '21 at 23:04

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This might help you a bit:

pyautogui.moveTo(1277, 127)

pyautogui.dragTo(1277, 225, button='left', duration=5)

(duration is in seconds)

edited Dec 18 '21 at 23:04

Tomerikoo

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answered Dec 18 '21 at 17:23

PandaWalkingOnTheMoon

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It is better to accompany your code with some explanations to help readers understand what your code does and why/how it solves the problem – Tomerikoo Dec 18 '21 at 23:02
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I think it's pretty self-explanatory – nikhilbalwani Feb 23 '22 at 10:28

How to simulate a mouse click and drag?

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