Thread: My first foray into windows programming

I am familiar with C and C++ but everything that I have done to this point has been on Unix in an academic setting.

I have a problem at work that I think a simple program would fix, but I could use a push in the right direction.

Basically, I want to write a program that right clicks a certain spot, then left clicks a 2nd spot twice. That needs to be repeated about 30,000 times.

It seems like an easy program, but I have never done anything for Windows, so a starting point would be nice.

Thanks.

why not just get a macroing program to do that for you?

Try using SetCursorPos and mouse_event.

Code:

#include <windows.h>

int main(void)
{
	int i;

	for (i = 0; i < 30000; i++)
	{
		/* Move cursor to screen position 10, 10 */
		SetCursorPos(10, 10);

		/* Right mouse click. */
		mouse_event(MOUSEEVENTF_RIGHTDOWN, 0, 0, 0, 0);
		mouse_event(MOUSEEVENTF_RIGHTUP,   0, 0, 0, 0);

		/* Move cursor to screen position 20, 20 */
		SetCursorPos(20, 20);

		/* Left mouse click. */
		mouse_event(MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN, 0, 0, 0, 0);
		mouse_event(MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP,   0, 0, 0, 0);

		/* Pause so mouse clicks are not interpreted as a double click. */
		Sleep( GetDoubleClickTime() + 100 );

		/* Left mouse click. */
		mouse_event(MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN, 0, 0, 0, 0);
		mouse_event(MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP,   0, 0, 0, 0);

		/* Pause for action to be processed. */
		Sleep(500);
	}

	return 0;
}

Heehee, I made a program like that once...with a bit of rand thrown in there......and basically, if you run it on windows XP or one of the windows OS's that don't halt when you press control-alt-delete, your puter's screwed. I then put this program in one of my friends' computer's startup directory and it uber screwed up his puter. Good times....good times.