Java Swing Mouse animateMouse(Robot robot, JComponent jc, boolean moveMouse, boolean clickOnArrival)

Description

Move the mouse to the center of the component provided.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
robot	the robot used to move the mouse.
jc	the component to move the mouse to
moveMouse	whether to animate the mouse movement
clickOnArrival	whether to click the mouse once it arrives at its destination

Declaration

protected static void animateMouse(Robot robot, JComponent jc,
        boolean moveMouse, boolean clickOnArrival) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from www.j  a va  2 s.c om*/
 * @(#)BlogHelper.java
 *
 * $Date: 2014-11-27 07:50:51 +0100 (Do, 27 Nov 2014) $
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2014 by Jeremy Wood.
 * All rights reserved.
 *
 * The copyright of this software is owned by Jeremy Wood. 
 * You may not use, copy or modify this software, except in  
 * accordance with the license agreement you entered into with  
 * Jeremy Wood. For details see accompanying license terms.
 * 
 * This software is probably, but not necessarily, discussed here:
 * https://javagraphics.java.net/
 * 
 * That site should also contain the most recent official version
 * of this software.  (See the SVN repository for more details.)
 */

import java.awt.MouseInfo;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.PointerInfo;

import java.awt.Robot;

import java.awt.event.InputEvent;

import javax.swing.JComponent;

import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;

public class Main {
    /** Move the mouse to a point provided.
     * 
     * @param robot the robot used to move the mouse.
     * @param jc the component to move the mouse to
     * @param p the point (relative to the JComponent) to move the mouse to.
     * @param moveMouse whether to animate the mouse movement
     * @param clickCountOnArrival how many clicks to simulate on arrival
     */
    protected static void animateMouse(Robot robot, JComponent jc, Point p,
            boolean moveMouse, int clickCountOnArrival) {
        Point copy = new Point(p.x, p.y);
        SwingUtilities.convertPointToScreen(copy, jc);
        if (moveMouse) {
            PointerInfo pi = MouseInfo.getPointerInfo();
            Point currentLoc = pi.getLocation();

            double ax = copy.x - currentLoc.x;
            double bx = currentLoc.x;
            double ay = copy.y - currentLoc.y;
            double by = currentLoc.y;

            for (double t = 0; t < 1; t += .05) {
                currentLoc.x = (int) (ax * t + bx);
                currentLoc.y = (int) (ay * t + by);
                robot.mouseMove(currentLoc.x, currentLoc.y);
                beat(40 * 4);
            }
        }
        robot.mouseMove(copy.x, copy.y);
        beat(40 * 4);

        if (clickCountOnArrival > 0) {
            while (clickCountOnArrival > 0) {
                robot.mousePress(InputEvent.BUTTON1_MASK);
                beat(20);
                robot.mouseRelease(InputEvent.BUTTON1_MASK);
                clickCountOnArrival--;
            }
            beat(200 * 4);
        }
    }

    /** Move the mouse to the center of the component provided.
     * 
     * @param robot the robot used to move the mouse.
     * @param jc the component to move the mouse to
     * @param moveMouse whether to animate the mouse movement
     * @param clickOnArrival whether to click the mouse once it arrives at its destination
     */
    protected static void animateMouse(Robot robot, JComponent jc,
            boolean moveMouse, boolean clickOnArrival) {
        Point p = new Point(jc.getWidth() / 2, jc.getHeight() / 2);
        animateMouse(robot, jc, p, moveMouse, clickOnArrival ? 1 : 0);
    }

    /** Pause for a certain number of milliseconds.
     * This is used in creating screen capture animations.
     * @param ms the milliseconds to wait.
     */
    protected static void beat(int ms) {
        try {
            Thread.sleep(ms);
        } catch (Exception e) {
        }
    }
}

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