Toggle for left mouse clicking

[Wraithmere]

Hi all,

First post! Am trying to automate a repetitive task. When using creating blend, speckle and other effects in Photoshop and similar I'm often left clicking hundreds of times. I want to automate this by having the left mouse button click as fast as possible when held down.

The script below works but left clicking is not yet being toggled by mousedown (left). I've tried various methods of acheiving that but none have worked.

WARNING - running this script as it is can result in uncontrollable left clicking!

Script to date...

HotKeySet("^+s","_Start")

HotKeySet("^+p","_Pause")

HotKeySet("^+e","_Terminate")

;Determine if user has swapped right and left mouse buttons

$k = RegRead("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse", "SwapMouseButtons")

; It's okay to NOT check the success of the RegRead operation

If $k = 1 Then

$primary = "right"

Else;normal (also case if could not read registry key)

$primary = "left"

EndIf

While 1

Sleep(200)

WEnd

Exit

Func _Start()

While 1

MouseClick($primary)

WEnd

EndFunc

Func _Pause()

While 1

Sleep(200)

WEnd

EndFunc

Func _Terminate()

Exit

EndFunc

[BrettF]

Hi all,

First post! Am trying to automate a repetitive task. When using creating blend, speckle and other effects in Photoshop and similar I'm often left clicking hundreds of times. I want to automate this by having the left mouse button click as fast as possible when held down.

The script below works but left clicking is not yet being toggled by mousedown (left). I've tried various methods of acheiving that but none have worked.

WARNING - running this script as it is can result in uncontrollable left clicking!

Script to date...

HotKeySet("^+s","_Start")

HotKeySet("^+p","_Pause")

HotKeySet("^+e","_Terminate")

;Determine if user has swapped right and left mouse buttons

$k = RegRead("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse", "SwapMouseButtons")

; It's okay to NOT check the success of the RegRead operation

If $k = 1 Then

$primary = "right"

Else;normal (also case if could not read registry key)

$primary = "left"

EndIf

While 1

Sleep(200)

WEnd

Exit

Func _Start()

While 1

MouseClick($primary)

WEnd

EndFunc

Func _Pause()

While 1

Sleep(200)

WEnd

EndFunc

Func _Terminate()

Exit

EndFunc

There is nothing really wrong, with you code. Great job! Some problems I forsee could be exiting the click loop... I might work up a quick example of how i would do it later, and Ctrl+Shift+S is probably being used already as a hotkey. Try changing it to see if it works