Drag & Drop Automation

[Turing]

I would like to program a script which would initialize and carry out a completely automatic drag & drop procedure. That is, the script will get a file name and then attempt to convey it over to another running process by means of simulating a drag & drop functionality, without involving any human touch. I have read tons of stuff on the subject, but they all deal with either responding to the drag event or reacting to the drop event.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Turing

[jvanegmond]

If no one is at the computer, then it is simple. You can use MouseClickDrag to drag the file into the window. You already know the window's x and y coordinates, so it is only a matter of finding where the file is on the window. For this you can use a solution like this:

#include <IE.au3>

$oIE = _IECreateEmbedded()

; Create a simple GUI for our output
GUICreate("Embedded Web control Test", 500, 500)
$GUIActiveX = GUICtrlCreateObj( $oIE, 0, 0 , 500, 500 )

GUISetState ();Show GUI

_IENavigate($oIE, @DesktopDir, 0)

Sleep(5000)

Copy the file that you want to drag into a temporary folder where you are sure it is the only file. That way you can ensure that your file is the only file showing up. Navigate the _IE control to that directory, and start the drag operation.

[Ascend4nt]

Try this ->