send mouseclick to an other window

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 23, 2014 at 5:30pm

This is quite difficult. There are probably ways of using the win32 api to do this, but I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up not working half the time anyway because of security reasons.

What problem are you trying to solve actually?

Permalink Reply by Heiko Bosse on August 24, 2014 at 5:04am

i use an external tool a former fellow student programmed to add or modify rhino geometry by clicking on different buttons in an external window. this interrupts by workflow, because i create geometry with grasshopper, then have to push a button in the toolwindow and then to go on with the new added geometry in grasshopper again.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 24, 2014 at 5:07am

Is this other tool a rhino plugin? In which language was it written?

Permalink Reply by Heiko Bosse on August 24, 2014 at 6:07am

it was written in vb. you have to start it with an .exe-file and it gets access then to the open rhinodocument from outside. i don't actually know, whether one calls it a plugin then.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 24, 2014 at 6:16am

It isn't a plugin if it's an exe. It's probably VB5/VB6 accessing RhinoScript through COM?

If it's made in VB.NET, then there may be a small chance you can get the assembly and navigate your way to the buttons that need pressing and then call Button.PerformClick() on them. But that requires a .NET exe.

I think you're out of luck in this case, there do exist automation tools on Windows that can start apps and press certain buttons, but I do not know which ones are good and which ones can be controlled via command-line arguments.

Permalink Reply by Heiko Bosse on August 24, 2014 at 6:42am

ok, thanks for your reply. i'll try out or find another solution