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mr.nothing
mr.nothing

Reputation: 5399

Universal point position

Is there a way to know the universal coordinates of the point?

I mean the following:
we have the button which could be pressed by clicking (500;500) when application maximized; if it possible to know which point to click to press the button when the window of application is 600x600;

And so on. Is there any function to calculate such a point?

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 101

Answers (1)

Xantix
Xantix

Reputation: 3331

I don't think there is a general function, since any developer could change the appearance based on screen size.

However, different approaches may work:

  1. Somehow get a handle to the button/element of interest, then just call its clicked command, or use that handle to get the coordinate position on the screen.

    • For instance, with Web pages, you can get the specific HTMLElement by name (or id) and then work backward from there.

    • If it is a Windows Form application, you can actually get a handle onto the window of that application, and then get the desired element/component by walking through them all.

  2. Create a list of the button locations under different maximization/restorings/movings and calculate the function from that. (Perhaps make a computer program to help with this).

  3. As a last-resort, like for applications which randomly move their buttons around to confuse bots (I can't think of any real life examples), you might need to do image analysis on a screenshot.

The spy++ tool in/for Visual Studio has a finder tool that can help get the window/element names of windows applications.

Upvotes: 1

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