C# Moving/Clicking Mouse Winforms

Question

i want to make an application that will automatically move the mouse and click it with just a press of a button in the background.. I'm from Sales and Inventory / HTML Shop website programming and this is my first time making an application that involves control. please help me because i want to push my programming skills. This is what i'm trying to do and my Idea. *i will put an loop counter for the repetition of the moves

1.get the x/y of current cursor and save it to variable named (coordinate) (Point A)

2.Right click it and move lower right (Point B)

3.wait 2 seconds

4.Move back to the first position by using variable (coordinate)

5.End loop repeat.

that's my idea and my algorithm my problem is i don't have any idea how to move a mouse and make it stop.

WPA? You mean WPF, right? In that case you have a related answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8050825/how-to-move-mouse-cursor-using-c/8050847#8050847 — Cleptus, May 03 '17 at 08:43
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms753326(v=vs.110).aspx — Hans Passant, May 03 '17 at 09:28
Strictly talking, "Windows application form" could be winforms or wpf (both are windows applications and have forms). I suppose you form is winforms :-) — Cleptus, May 03 '17 at 09:47

Hicham Bouchilkhi · Answer 1 · 2017-05-03T09:54:43.957

In Window Form projects to move a cursor to a specific point on your screen, you can use this static method.

System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position = new Point (X,Y);

and to perform a click event you can use this method.

[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
public static extern void mouse_event(uint dwFlags, uint dx, uint dy, uint cButtons, uint dwExtraInfo);

public void DoMouseClick()
{
    //Call the imported function with the cursor's current position
    uint X = (uint)System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position.X;
    uint Y = (uint)System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position.Y;
    mouse_event(MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN | MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP, X, Y, 0, 0);
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

You can move mouse writing some function or code like this:

private void MoveCursor()
{
   // Set the Current cursor, move the cursor's Position,
   // and set its clipping rectangle to the form. 

   this.Cursor = new Cursor(Cursor.Current.Handle);
   Cursor.Position = new Point(Cursor.Position.X - 50, Cursor.Position.Y - 50);
   Cursor.Clip = new Rectangle(this.Location, this.Size);
}

How To Move mouse in C#

And to find location of any control on your Form you can use the following code

Point locationOnForm = control.FindForm().PointToClient(
    control.Parent.PointToScreen(control.Location));

How to get controls location in Win Forms

C# Moving/Clicking Mouse Winforms

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