one mouse click = multiple programs' actions

October 23rd, 2015, 04:43 AM

Under Windows 10 here,

What I would like to achieve, put it simply, by one single mouse click, it would trigger buy/sell market button cliks on different trading platformss (3-4 of them), paneled side by side. Ideally at the same time, with the least delay...

Can you think of the best trick to realise such task ?

thanks a lot

October 23rd, 2015, 05:28 AM

Hi,

Maybe try to keybind buy/sell actions with your different platforms with independent macro keys on gaming mouse/keyboard type ?

cheers,

Totantaz

October 23rd, 2015, 06:26 AM

With bindings, will there not be a windows focus problem ?

My main platform has PS4/XBOX controller and keyboard trading enabled, NT8 has keyboard too, however two other platform I use support only mouse click, hence I would need to focus on simulated simultaneous mouse clicks really

Maybe someone has wrote scripts with AutoHotkey or else, I am not sure

October 23rd, 2015, 06:33 AM

hmmm... Does your other platforms support mouse-3 and mouse-4 type buttons ?

i would be scared of using left and right clicks by error hehe

October 23rd, 2015, 06:40 AM

Neh ! It is just for the needs of an experiment, will pay attention

October 23rd, 2015, 03:25 PM

I would try using AutoHotKey.

October 23rd, 2015, 03:30 PM

SARdynamite

Under Windows 10 here,

What I would like to achieve, put it simply, by one single mouse click, it would trigger buy/sell market button cliks on different trading platformss (3-4 of them), paneled side by side. Ideally at the same time, with the least delay...

Can you think of the best trick to realise such task ?

thanks a lot

Low level .Net routines and variables allow most things, I use this a lot under NT7/Windows7, I can't see why it would be a problem under later versions of either. Using separate thread(s) is also best to get decent timings and avoid any main NT thread clash or holdup. Google will find you anything that you need if you are happy to do it in C#.

e.g. a simple utility using the Windows 'mouse_event' function and the Cursor variable that I use:

Code

		[DllImport("user32.dll")]
		static extern void mouse_event(uint dwFlags, uint dx, uint dy, uint dwData, UIntPtr dwExtraInfo);   
		
		private void ClickPoint(Point pt)
		{
			ClickPoint(pt, 75);
		}
			
		private void ClickPoint(Point pt, int delay)
		{
			if (showClicks) Print("ClickPoint " + pt + "  " + delay);
			
			if (falseClicks) return;

			// set cursor on coords, and press mouse
			
			Cursor.Position = pt;
			Thread.Sleep(25);
						
			mouse_event(0x00000002, 0, 0, 0, UIntPtr.Zero); /// left mouse button down
			mouse_event(0x00000004, 0, 0, 0, UIntPtr.Zero); /// left mouse button up

			if (delay != 0) Thread.Sleep(delay);
		}

Note that points are in screen pixels in a global space across all monitors relative to topleft on the main monitor, +ve and -ve in both directions. 'showClicks' and 'falseClicks' are just diagnostic booleans.

Plenty of ways to handle focus issues either with system routines or calling the click routine on another area of the window(s).

Cheers

October 24th, 2015, 07:42 AM

Interesting. Thanks

SatchFan

I would try using AutoHotKey.

Here is something with AutoIt

Code

HotKeySet("{ESC}", "_exit")
HotKeySet("{F10}", "_secondMouse")
$mouse = MouseGetPos()
$dll = DllOpen("user32.dll")
$toggle = 0
#include <Misc.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <EditConstants.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>
$MiceX2 = GUICreate("MiceX2", 184, 92, 192, 124)
$xDistanceInput = GUICtrlCreateInput("200", 128, 0, 49, 21)
$xInfoLabel = GUICtrlCreateLabel("X Distance from Mouse", 8, 4, 114, 17)
$yInfoLabel = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Y Distance from Mouse", 8, 28, 114, 17)
$yDistanceInput = GUICtrlCreateInput("0", 128, 24, 49, 21)
$hotkeyInfo1 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Start = F10", 16, 48, 83, 17)
$hotkeyInfo1 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Stop = F9", 16, 64, 83, 17)
$hotkeyInfo2 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Exit = ESC", 16, 78, 54, 17)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1) ; Change to OnEvent mode
GUISetOnEvent($GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, "_exit")
_load()
While 1
    Sleep(100)
WEnd

Func _secondMouse()
    While 1
        Sleep(25)
        $mouse = MouseGetPos()
        ToolTip("^", $mouse[0] + GUICtrlRead($xDistanceInput) - 10, $mouse[1] + GUICtrlRead($yDistanceInput))
        If _IsPressed("01", $dll) Then _mouseClick()
        If _IsPressed("1B", $dll) Then
            _save()
            Exit
        EndIf
        If _IsPressed("78", $dll) Then
            ToolTip("")
            ExitLoop
        EndIf
    WEnd
EndFunc   ;==>_secondMouse



Func _mouseClick()
    ToolTip("")
    MouseUp("left")
    MouseMove($mouse[0] + GUICtrlRead($xDistanceInput), $mouse[1] + GUICtrlRead($yDistanceInput), 0)
    MouseDown("left")
    Sleep(50)
    MouseUp("left")
    MouseMove($mouse[0], $mouse[1], 0)
    ToolTip("^", $mouse[0] + GUICtrlRead($xDistanceInput), $mouse[1] + GUICtrlRead($yDistanceInput))

EndFunc   ;==>_mouseClick



Func _exit()
    DllClose($dll)
    _save()
    Exit
EndFunc   ;==>_exit

Func _save()
    IniWrite(@ScriptDir & "\MouseX2.ini", "Distance", "X", GUICtrlRead($xDistanceInput, 1))
    IniWrite(@ScriptDir & "\MouseX2.ini", "Distance", "Y", GUICtrlRead($yDistanceInput, 1))
EndFunc   ;==>_save

Func _load()
    GUICtrlSetData($xDistanceInput, IniRead(@ScriptDir & "\MouseX2.ini", "Distance", "X", "200"))
    GUICtrlSetData($yDistanceInput, IniRead(@ScriptDir & "\MouseX2.ini", "Distance", "Y", "0"))
EndFunc   ;==>_load

November 4th, 2015, 09:37 AM

Regarding the last AutoIt script, I tried to adapt it to make it a triple cursor/click instead of double
However the cursor markers are blinking and fading out of sight most of the time.

Can anyone familiar with AutoIt give it a quick try (to make it triple cursor/click) ? I'd be grateful!

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