VB.NET - Simulate Mouse click using powershell

Hi all,

Apologies for the novice question, but I have been googling and searching for nearly 3 hours to no avail! I wish to automate the simulation of pressing a mouse button using powershell in Windows 7. I can only get as far as moving the cursor, i.e.:

add-type -AssemblyName microsoft.VisualBasic
add-type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
[Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction]::AppActivate("My Program")
[System.Windows.Forms.Cursor]::Position = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(1480,415)

But I cannot find out how to then simulate a left mouse click as the next step. Any help from anyone who could provide an answer for an absolute newbie to powershell would be warmly appreciated.

Andy

This is
the Powershell code to move the mouse to (0,0):

[System.Windows.http://www.vistax64.com/#.Cursor]::Position = New-Object
System.Drawing.Point(0,0)

Look at this documentation
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171548.aspx

Hi Riley,

'Thanks but no - I can move the mouse easily already, but I cannot simulate a click. I had already seen that documentation, but I could not find how to incorporate it into powershell, having only started using it a couple of days ago. Would you be able to tell me how to do this?

Andy

Here's a http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163301.aspx on UI automation with Powershell.  They use user32.dll functions to do things.  You could do the same thing, and then use the http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=321029 function to perform the click.  Of course you would need to write a cmdlet to do this in C# unless someone knows a way to import a non-.net dll and function into Powershell natively.  I don't believe you can perform a mouse click natively with .net.

Kirtan : Thanks I'll look into it, but from my limited knowledge I cannot get it working off-the-bat. It seems odd that I cannot get a simple mouse click working in a simpler way :(

Riley: Thanks for looking again - but I had already seen it and the writer refers to a ".click()" command from goodness knows where!

Edit: No I'm still stumped. Having spent (several) hours looking into this, there doesn't seem to be a simple "this is how you get powershell to make the mouse click" anywhere!