twapi can't right click the taskbar in win 10

[two...@gmail.com]

I can't get twapi to right click the taskbar to bring up the menu. I need to automate this when windows screws up the taskbar color, which it does frequently.


I've got this far,

package require twapi
proc wait .... just does a delay
wait 500
twapi::move_mouse 1222 1063 ;# this works
wait 1200
twapi::click_mouse_button left ;# tried this first but it doesn't help any
wait 1200
twapi::click_mouse_button right ;# does nothing


At this point the menu should come up but doesn't.

[two...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 1:17:29 PM UTC-7, two...@gmail.com wrote:


I found an alternate way to do it, but can't figure out how in twapi to send the windows key+i

There's a way to hold down shift, alt, and control, before sending a key, but I can't figure out how to use the windows key as a modifier to be held down, then send the i, then windows key up

[Ashok]

The following works for me on Windows 10, Tcl 8.6.8, Twapi 4.3.5

move_mouse 1418 1054 ; click_mouse_button right

The following also works

% move_mouse 1418 1054
% send_input {{mouse 0 0 -rdown -relative} {mouse 0 0 -rup -relative}}

So not sure why it does not work on your system.

/Ashok

[two...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, August 8, 2018 at 9:48:07 PM UTC-7, Ashok wrote:
> The following works for me on Windows 10, Tcl 8.6.8, Twapi 4.3.5
>
> move_mouse 1418 1054 ; click_mouse_button right
>
> The following also works
>
> % move_mouse 1418 1054
> % send_input {{mouse 0 0 -rdown -relative} {mouse 0 0 -rup -relative}}
>
> So not sure why it does not work on your system.
>
> /Ashok

I don't know why it didn't work either, copy/pasting your code into a console window worked just now.

At any rate, I found a shorter way to get the taskbar settings windows up in one step:

exec cmd /c start ms-settings: &

Thanks