How to make a macro that clicks in several places?

Question

Hi, I’d like to know how to make one. exe that acts as a macro, whenever I press the ALT key it will perform mouse clicks at a certain position with shift pressed at the same time. It can be in any language, I wanted the program to run in the background but in python always closes.

most I could get in python was:

import pyautogui

pyautogui.keyDown('shift')
pyautogui.click(x=873, y=480, clicks=1, interval=0.01, button='left')
pyautogui.click(x=950, y=480, clicks=1, interval=0.01, button='left')
pyautogui.click(x=1030, y=480, clicks=1, interval=0.01, button='left')
pyautogui.keyUp('shift')

 

Answer 1

Well, about doing it run a sequence of commands when you press a specific key or CTRL + Something for example you can do the following steps:

• First I’ll import: from pynput import keyboard to mess with hotkeys and allow you to execute the commands just by pressing a key or a combination of keys.

Documentation of pynput: https://pynput.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

import pyautogui
from pynput import keyboard

Remember to give the pip install pynput

• Then I’ll turn the code you passed into a function

This greatly facilitates the repetition process from within the script without spending too many lines

def clicar_personalizado():

    pyautogui.keyDown('shift')
    pyautogui.click(x=873, y=480, clicks=1, interval=0.01, button='left')
    pyautogui.click(x=950, y=480, clicks=1, interval=0.01, button='left')
    pyautogui.click(x=1030, y=480, clicks=1, interval=0.01, button='left')
    pyautogui.keyUp('shift')

• Now I will add allow it to run functions from what you press on the keyboard using the method Keyboard.Globalhotkeys of pynput as follows:

Again follows the link from that specific part:

with keyboard.GlobalHotKeys({
    '<alt>': clicar_personalizado, # "sequência de teclas": função
    '<ctrl>+f': quit, # Opcional apenas para fechar o script
}) as h:
    h.join()

The pynput documentation teaches another way to do this through a Listener, but in your case I think Globalhotkeys is the best way to do this.

• In place of alt you can put anything else like for example: "Ctrl+alt+q".

The keys Ctrl and alt need to be inside < >.

Complete code:

import pyautogui
from pynput import keyboard

def clicar_personalizado():
    pyautogui.keyDown('shift')
    pyautogui.click(x=873, y=480, clicks=1, interval=0.01, button='left')
    pyautogui.click(x=950, y=480, clicks=1, interval=0.01, button='left')
    pyautogui.click(x=1030, y=480, clicks=1, interval=0.01, button='left')
    pyautogui.keyUp('shift')

with keyboard.GlobalHotKeys({
    '<alt>': clicar_personalizado, # "sequência de teclas": função
    '<ctrl>+f': quit, # Opcional apenas para fechar o script
}) as h:
    h.join()

Now on how to make the program into one .exe I know two ways:

• Using pyinstaller:

I recommend this video here explaining how to use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMkPGjGhzxg

Or you can follow for documentation: https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage.html

• Using Auto Py To Exe:

see this link here for the tutorial on how to use it: https://dev.to/eshleron/how-to-convert-py-to-exe-step-by-step-guide-3cfi

I hope I’ve helped!