selecting text with mouse commands

[max-mapper]

I have some code like this:

    robot.mouseToggle("down")
    robot.moveMouse(data.x, data.y)
    robot.mouseToggle("up")

I was hoping this would have the effect of selecting text, but I can't get the text to get highlighted Any ideas?

[octalmage]

Mouse events are really weird on Mac. I bet we'll have to specify that the mouse is down for the mouse move or something weird like that. I'll look into it this week!

[noonat]

Looked into this a little bit, and it seems like you need to pass one of the drag event types (kCGEventLeftMouseDragged, kCGEventRightMouseDragged, kCGEventOtherMouseDragged) to get this to do a selection. It seems like the mouse button also needs to be marked as down, neither is sufficient on its own.

[max-mapper]

@noonat nice work.

So it sounds like maybe we'll need a drag: true option to mouseToogle?

[octalmage]

For sure! Either that or a separate mouse drag function.

[noonat]

I have a branch with a separate dragMouse(x, y, button) function, where button is optional and defaults to left. It seems to be working as expected.

@octalmage How would you like to handle testing for something like that?

[octalmage]

@noonat I currently don't have a way to test events like that, so don't worry about it for now. Create a pull request and I'll test it on all OSes manually.

I created something that works locally, but it doesn't work on TravisCI:

https://github.com/octalmage/robotjs/tree/keyboard-tests

See #98.

[noonat]

Opened #133 for this.