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)

Botany

@Erik Lopes Did you find a solution for this? – Lunation

Anyone got the answer? – Suppurative

Answer 1

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)

Locoism

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. – Lunation

@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. – Lunation

this worked for this thanks! – Suppurative

Answer 2

This might help you a bit:

pyautogui.moveTo(1277, 127)

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

(duration is in seconds)

Senility

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 – Kurt

I think it's pretty self-explanatory – Kevin