How to simulate a click on screen

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	Asked By	FFNX

I don’t even know if godot can do this but is it possible to simulate a mouse click? Similar to how pyautogui works in python

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	Reply From:	PunchablePlushie

Haven’t worked with Python at all so not sure how pyautogui does it. But as far as I know, Godot has two ways to simulate input:

• Input.action_press() and Input.action_release()
  With these two you can simulate pressing an action that you’ve defined in the input map. However, as the docs point out: “This method will not cause any _input calls. It is intended to be used with Input.is_action_pressed and Input.is_action_just_pressed”.

• Input.parse_input_event()
  This will simulate an InputEvent which will be picked up by _input().

To use parse_input_event() you gotta create your own input event which is really easy actually.

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For example, to create an event for the left mouse button at the position (10, 10):

var event_lmb = InputEventMouseButton.new()
event_lmb.position = Vector2(10, 10)

InputEventMouseButton class has a property called pressed which controls whether the button is… well, pressed/held down or not.
If you’re looking for a “full click”, AKA simulating someone pressing down the LMB and then releasing it, you can do something like this:

event_lmb.pressed = true
Input.parse_input_event(event_lmb)
event_lmb.pressed = false
Input.parse_input_event(event_lmb

The above code, combined with the first code will simulate a full left mouse click at position (10, 10).