Simulate a mouse click

Scripting Issues
1

Is it possible to simulate a mouse click on a button.

For example I have a button and I put my mouse on this button. When I press the key “j” on my keyboard, it simulates the click and launch the function that corresponds to the button click.

Thanks,
Julien

I’m french, sorry for my english…

2

messenger.send(“button_name”)
where “button name” is the string you listen to.

3

I don’t understand what you want I do…

My code :

import direct.directbase.DirectStart
from direct.gui.DirectGui import *
from direct.showbase.DirectObject import DirectObject 
from pandac.PandaModules import TextNode

class DemoMouse(DirectObject):
	def click(self):
		print('click')
		messenger.send(self.b)

	def __init__(self):
		self.accept("j",self.click)
 
		def setText():
				print("Button Clicked")
 
		self.b = DirectButton(text = ("OK", "click!", "rolling over", "disabled"), 
		scale=.05, command=setText)
		self.b.accept('clickOnb',setText)
 
		run()

DemoMouse()

When I click on “j” and if the mouse is on the button, the function setText is called.

In other words, I want change the button of the click. My mouse button become my “j” key
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4

You might want to look at Collision Detection. [/url]

5

So, you’re asking about a DirectButton specifically. To make a DirectButton respond to a keyboard button instead of (or in addition to) the mouse button, you can do:

myButton.guiItem.addClickButton(KeyboardButton.asciiKey('j'))
myButton.bind('click-j-', myButton.commandFunc)

This is untested, but I think it should work.

David

6

It works!

Thank you drwr :wink:

7

Oops. Looks like i misunderstood the question first.

And thanks to David for the neat snippet.