Question:
How can i send middle mouse click with power shell scripts?
I want something like this:
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Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms [Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait('{MButton}') |
Answer:
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function Click-MouseButton { param( [string]$Button, [switch]$help) $HelpInfo = @' Function : Click-MouseButton By : John Bartels Date : 12/16/2012 Purpose : Clicks the Specified Mouse Button Usage : Click-MouseButton [-Help][-Button x] where -Help displays this help -Button specify the Button You Wish to Click {left, middle, right} '@ if ($help -or (!$Button)) { write-host $HelpInfo return } else { $signature=@' [DllImport("user32.dll",CharSet=CharSet.Auto, CallingConvention=CallingConvention.StdCall)] public static extern void mouse_event(long dwFlags, long dx, long dy, long cButtons, long dwExtraInfo); '@ $SendMouseClick = Add-Type -memberDefinition $signature -name "Win32MouseEventNew" -namespace Win32Functions -passThru if($Button -eq "left") { $SendMouseClick::mouse_event(0x00000002, 0, 0, 0, 0); $SendMouseClick::mouse_event(0x00000004, 0, 0, 0, 0); } if($Button -eq "right") { $SendMouseClick::mouse_event(0x00000008, 0, 0, 0, 0); $SendMouseClick::mouse_event(0x00000010, 0, 0, 0, 0); } if($Button -eq "middle") { $SendMouseClick::mouse_event(0x00000020, 0, 0, 0, 0); $SendMouseClick::mouse_event(0x00000040, 0, 0, 0, 0); } } } |
You can add this function to your profile, or other script, and then you can call it with:
Click-MouseButton “middle”