Hello,
How can I control the mouse and the keyboard in python?
The idea is to do the same as the Robot() class in java. Be able to say : move the mouse from here to here, clic there, write that whatever is on the screen.
For windows there is win32api but I'm using mainly linux
For linux there is Xlib but does it works for keyboard as well? (found only reference to the mouse)
Is there a cross-platform solution (Linux, Windows and even OsX would be the great)?
thank you
Here is an interessting Thread from Python Forum for you: Python Forum
Edit: There was also an interessting question on stackoverflow regarding mouse control...maybe it is a good starting point.. Mouse Control with Python
One of the Answers is refering to an Linux example...which heads you to an nice blog entry.
for the mouse, I've found pymouse which seems to work (I haven't fully tried it, a small hack needed for the click, cf the issues)
for the keyboard, I'm not sure Xlib can do the job. I'm still looking on how to write something but you can catch key event as explained here or in C here using Xlib (but I don't know C).
here is an example working on gnome only (not good enough yet)
In pymouse, they have a nice way to make it work on the 3 different platform but needs to make 3 code...
For console try ncurses or slang. In other situation try PyQt, PyGtk, TkInter.
ALL of this solution ARE cross-platform and work almost anywhere.
I use dogtail (https://fedorahosted.org/dogtail/) to do such things, using this I have created a automated testing fromework for my linux(ubuntu) app. That framework clicks buttons and types into text fields.
see the gedit example, https://fedorahosted.org/dogtail/browser/examples/gedit-test-utf8-procedural-api.py
So just use dogtail e.g
dogtail.rawinput.click(100, 100)
For linux there is Xlib but does it works for keyboard as well? (found only reference to the mouse)
Yes, it work for keyboard also.