I'm building an automatic timer system as a fun silly project for some office chums. It's end user goal is to allow end users to be away from keyboard while still simulating activity to prevent timed applications from changing their statuses to away.
I have the front end of a windows form with two buttons. ON and OFF. When I press on, I want it to begin moving the mouse in 1 minute intervals for a moment. (or click maybe.) and when I select off it stops the action.
I've never really coded much before (I've done basic python stuff so I know what an if statement is, a function, how to declare a variable etc but I've never done anything with a GUI or in c# so this is all new.)
Lastly, I would want to save/export it as an exe for distribution for slackers I mean end users to run and use.
Thanks so much for the help!
Looks like someone is trying to hack their way out to keep their PC active when away from desk :D
//programmatically move the mouse example
PointConverter pc = new PointConverter();
Point pt = new Point();
pt = (Point)pc.ConvertFromString("0, 768");
Cursor.Position = pt;
Ref
Related
I have been trying to create a sound every time your mouse leaves and enters this button. The code doesn't really work. I have tried this on a local script and a normal script:
script.Parent.MouseEnter:Connect(function()
local sound = script.Parent.Parent.hit
sound:Play()
end)
script.Parent.MouseEnter:Connect(function()
local soundTwo = script.Parent.Parent.hitS
soundTwo:Play()
end)
```[enter image description here][1]
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/5niz4.png -- The explorer of the game (I used script and local script btw and none of them changed anything, but i do think local script would work better for a gui)
You can try adding the following lines at the top of your code.
if not sound.IsLoaded then sound.Loaded:Wait() end
if not soundTwo.IsLoaded then soundTwo.Loaded:Wait() end
Also, both of your functions are for MouseEnter. Try changing one to MouseLeave.
I'm working on a game design / UI project to redesign an existing game's control scheme (in this case, Trine) to use minimalistic input. I am trying to map lateral movement and the jump function to a Win8 tablet's volume buttons. Here is the basic code I am using:
Volume_Up::
Loop 5
{
Send {right down}
Sleep 50
}
Send {right up}
Return
Volume_Down::
Loop 5
{
Send {left down}
Sleep 50
}
Send {left up}
Return
This is working fairly well and is pretty responsive for moving left and right. However, the desired behavior that I want is to trigger jump (i.e. up) when BOTH buttons are depressed. For instance:
Player holds VolumeUp to move right.
Player comes to an obstacle.
Player continues to hold VolumeUp to queue right-bound movement and;
Player taps VolumeDown momentarily
Player jumps, movement continues up-and-over obstacle toward the right.
I have tried various permutations on using another script with the (Volume_Up & Volume_Down::) syntax to trigger this interaction, but that always seems to interfere with the movement commands. I think this may call for a nested If statement inside the move-left / move-right commands, to check if both buttons are depressed, but the Autohotkey documentation is not very clear and I'm unsure how to code that (I'm more of a game designer than I am a programmer). Any help would be really appreciated!
First of all, give attention to the comment from MCL. Pressing a button down 5 times and never releasing it in between does not seem to do much.
I think that you want multiple threads to be able to run at the same time.
Look up threads, but be aware about the following:
"Although AutoHotkey doesn't actually use multiple threads, it simulates some of that behavior: If a second thread is started -- such as by pressing another hotkey while the previous is still running -- the current thread will be interrupted (temporarily halted) to allow the new thread to become current. If a third thread is started while the second is still running, both the second and first will be in a dormant state, and so on."
I have recently been asked if I could make a macro in Excel VBA that will allow a user to type in two numbers and have it automatically drop to the next row. The purpose of this is so they can type in grades for a test two numbers at a time without pressing enter since they aren't great at typing.
When I first heard this he mentioned it was Visual Basic, so I figured I'd just use a TextChanging or TextChanged event in the cell range and have it work off that. However, I haven't been able to find any such event or anything resembling it in the documentation thus far. The first thing that I came across was Workbook_Change, but that only changes after you press enter which is useless to me. Someone else mentioned there is such an event, but couldn't name it directly and I haven't been able to find what they were talking about.
If anyone has any information on if such an event exists or is possible I'd love to know.
The Excel version is 2007 as far as I'm aware.
This, in my opinion, requires a non-programming solution. I absolutely sympathize - it is tough to watch people get old - but you have to draw the line somewhere - for their sake and yours. The enter key is the most basic part of a computer. You could probably write a macro that would automatically hit enter on every even(or odd depending) keystroke in excel - but you're going to run into other problems like not being able to use delete normally. And what if you do want to put a string of text in a cell(like the student's name)? Perhaps it is time to find a non-programming solution. By that I mean someone should have a candid conversation with him about how he wants to solve the problem. Personally, I would offer to type the numbers in for him, as I am accustomed to the number pad - but it is probably better to be more direct and start to discuss retirement.
See this discussion about the limitations of cell edit mode in excel:
http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/524860-call-macro-every-keystroke.html
If you're really heart-set on a programming solution, I would recommend some kind of keystroke logging add-in.
Good Luck.
You could use the Worksheet_SelectionChange event. It is triggered without enter, but it would be triggered a lot.
You could however also create a special user-form for typing in the data, but this might be more work than necessary.
The main problem with using my suggested event is, you will need it as trigger and trigger it yourself, when selecting the next row, so disable event handling before changing the selection.
Edit:
This is a quick solution (paste this into the vba-code of the desired worksheet):
Private Const clngColumnRightToLastGrade = 5
Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
If Target.Column = clngColumnRightToLastGrade Then
Application.EnableEvents = False
'offset selection, one row down, two cols to left
Target.Offset(1, -2).Select
Application.EnableEvents = True
End If
End Sub
This will set you one row down and to column C, everytime your selection changes to column E (=5).
You don't have to use a constant of course, you could specify the column to sense in the workbook, so your user might modify it easier by himself.
To make this as an optional feature, you could extend it to autogenerated code. What I have in mind is like a Ribbon-Button, which opens a setupForm to configure, and a Ribbon-Button to activate the configuration, which would place this code in the configured sheet. But this might be a bit over the top.
In Excel 2003, (may be different in Excel2007 ?!) the WorkSheet_Change event is triggered every time the value of a cell is changed wether it is by pressing enter, delete, selecting an other cell after modifying a cell or even when a vba script changes the value of a cell.
I would do something like that:
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
Dim RefRange As Range
Set RefRange = Intersect(ActiveSheet.Columns("??????????"), ActiveSheet.UsedRange)
If Not Intersect(Target, RefRange) Is Nothing Then
Target.Offset(0, 1).EntireColumn.Range("A1").Select
'Target.Offset(0, 1).EntireColumn.Range("A65536").End(xlUp).Offset(1,0).Select
End If
End Sub
I am making an application to control the mouse using an analog stick from a gamepad for Mac OS X (10.7.3).
Currently it is working pretty well, I can control the cursor in desktop and most games. But in Team Fortress 2, I cant control the aim, but can control the cursor in the menu. Mouse wheel and clicks works everywhere.
Another strange thing is that when I move the real mouse, the aim "jumps" the traveled distance from my "virtual mouse" before aiming normally, so it somewhat is receiving the events.
The game option "Raw mouse input" is disabled (I think it is not even supported in osx). And a similar application can controle the aim successfully.
I suspect the game is looking for "delta movement" or "relative movement" events or anything similar, but my code sets the position of the cursor using absolute positions. Not sute how to change this.
Here is the snippet of code used to send mouseMoved events:
EDIT: Crappy code removed!
.
EDIT:
Also, because I did this way, I need to check the screen bounds manually to prevent the cursor going Crazy. So in multi-screen setups, and when the user change the resolution, it gets worst. Would be so much better if I can just send the amount of movement and let the OS take care of constraining the cursor.
.
The question is:
I am doing the mouse move events the wrong way?
How can I fix this?
EDIT2:
So, that was just a stupid bug, sorry =P
I just forgot to call CGSetIntegerValueField(kCGEventMouseDeltaX, ...) (and Y) with the delta values... =P
Finally got this working, after just a few short hours of Googling and experimenting :) Looks like Rodrigo was trying to say that you have to call CGEventSetIntegerValueField on kCGMouseEventDeltaX and kCGMouseEventDeltaY on the mouse event after constructing it.
My code, using PyObjC:
from Quartz.CoreGraphics import (
CGEventCreate,
CGEventCreateMouseEvent,
CGEventGetLocation,
CGEventPost,
CGEventSetIntegerValueField,
kCGEventMouseMoved,
kCGHIDEventTap,
kCGMouseEventDeltaX,
kCGMouseEventDeltaY,
)
def mouse_delta(delta_x, delta_y):
"""
Send a MouseMoved event with the given deltaX and deltaY attributes,
but without changing the cursor location.
"""
# Might be a better way to get the current mouse location
x, y = CGEventGetLocation(CGEventCreate(None))
# The `mouseButton` parameter to CGEventCreateMouseEvent is ignored
# unless `mouseType` is kCGEventOtherMouse{Down,Dragged,Up},
# so let's just pass the value 0
event = CGEventCreateMouseEvent(None, kCGEventMouseMoved, (x, y), 0)
CGEventSetIntegerValueField(event, kCGMouseEventDeltaX, delta_x)
CGEventSetIntegerValueField(event, kCGMouseEventDeltaY, delta_y)
return CGEventPost(kCGHIDEventTap, event)
I wrote a simple program with SFML and OpenGL which draws a spinning square that can be moved around the screen with the arrow keys.
It works fine on all the Linux and Mac computers I've tested it on, but when I try to move the square on Windows (by holding down an arrow key) it moves a small distance and then stops moving and spinning. I'm pretty sure the program is getting stuck in the GetEvent method - my guess is that when I've held the key down long enough for it to start repeating, the event stack keeps getting new events added to it before I can pop everything off it (and if I turn the key repeat rate on Windows right down to the minimum then the problem goes away - I don't really like this as a solution though).
I found that pressing and holding Alt, Ctrl, Delete, Page up, Page down, Home, End etc all cause this behavior too (even though I don't specifically detect any of these keys in the program), but all the letter keys, as well as space, enter, backspace and the keypad arrow keys work fine (i.e. they don't cause the program to pause if I hold them down for too long).
I don't have the exact code (I just turned my laptop off), but it looks like:
while(running) {
while(app.GetEvent(event))
if(event.Type==sf::Event::Closed) running=false;
if(input.IsKeyDown(sf::Key::Right)); // move right
// etc etc
// update rotation
// draw everything
}
Any ideas as to what the exact problem might be, and how I could fix it?
I know this is an old question but I would like to answer it in the interest of helping others who may find themselves here experiencing similiar problems.
SFML 1.6 has two ways you can get input from the user. One is event-based where you process each event sent to you via sf::Window::GetEvent(). The other is query-based where you check the sf::Input class of your window directly.
You have used the query-based method here but put it inside an event loop which isn't really the way it was intended to be used. It was meant to be used like this. This is a nice feature because SFML essentially keeps a boolean table of keys automatically for you so you don't need to manage key states yourself. IMHO for using repeating input this is more elegant since you won't be spamming your event queue, just checking a boolean value.
while(app.GetEvent(event))
if(event.Type == sf::Event::Closed) running=false;
if(event.Type == sf::Event::KeyPressed && event.Key.Code == sf::Key::Right)
{
// move right
}
}
If you wanted to just query sf::Input directly then you use the same code as above, but you put it outside the event loop.
while(app.GetEvent(event)
{
}
if (myWindow.GetInput().IsKeyDown(sf::Key::Right))
{
}
By default automatic key repeat should be enabled for sf::Windows but you can make sure by using sf::Window::EnableKeyRepeat(true). This means it will send a KeyPressed event repeatedly while a key is held down.
Try using the query-based method outside the main event loop and see if that works for you.