This script does a few things. I will break it apart into separate posts that deal with each bit, but for now here is the whole lot.
The purpose of this script is to;
- move the mouse to specific screen coordinates
- click mouse buttons at those coordinates in order to drive an application
- give the application time to respond
- take a screenshot
- save the screenshot as required
- cater for multiple screens in a horizontal configuration
There are some functions in this one not specifically related to the objectives, but for reasons I won’t go into here, I generally try to keep all scripts as self-contained as possible. I will try to break this out when I get time.
#region Includes
# ====================== Add some required bits and import some DLLs
# System drawing and windows forms
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing")
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“System.Windows.Forms”)
# Some mousey things
$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
# Stopwatch for timing the whole process
$SWScriptTime = [Diagnostics.Stopwatch]::StartNew()
#endregion Includes
#region Variables
# ====================== Define Some Screen Variables
# Screen size related variables
$baseScreenSizeX = 1920 #pixles
$baseScreenSizeY = 1080 #pixles
$sleepPeriod = 20 #seconds
$baseimagepath = "D:\RoboClicky\images\"
# Log File Variables
$appVersion = "RoboClicky Version 2"
$logMonth = (Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MM-")
$logDay = (Get-Date -Format "dd-")
$basePath = ""
$logFile = ""
$logDestinationDetail = $basepath + "D:\RoboClicky\"+$logmonth+$logday+"RoboClicky_Detail_Log.txt"
# Temporary session log
$global:currentLog = ""
#endregion Variables
#region FUNCTIONS
# ====================== FUNCTIONS
#region GenericFunctions
# I use these in many of my scripts
# ====================== Format Date Function
function GetDateFormatted(){
Return (Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")
}
function GetDateFormattedForPaths(){
Return (Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MM-dd HHmmss")
}
# ====================== Logging Function
function LogThis($logthisstring){
$logEntry = (GetDateFormatted) + "# " + $logthisstring
$global:currentLog = $global:currentLog + "`n" + $logentry
$logEntry | Out-File $logDestinationDetail -Append
$logEntry | Out-host
}
# ====================== Path Testing Function
function CheckFileExists($checkPath){
$filexists = (test-path ($checkPath))
logthis("Check Path: " + $checkPath + " | file exists = " + $filexists)
return $filexists
}
# ====================== Exit Block
$ExitNow = {
# find me a line Morpheus
$SWScriptTime.Stop()
logthis("EXIT NOW! Script complete in " + $SWScriptTime.Elapsed + " ... welcome to the real world Neo ...")
$global:currentLog | Out-File $currentLogPath -Force
exit
}
#endregion GenericFunctions
#region RoboClickyFunctions
# ====================== Return mouse to 0,0 coordinates
function mooseHome(){
logthis ("F: moving mouse now to coordinates: 0,0")
[Windows.Forms.Cursor]::Position = "0,0"
return
}
# ====================== Move mouse to specified coordinates and sleep for sleep period
function mooseMove($screenNumber, $xCoords, $yCoords, $label, [boolean]$isrelative, $loadWaitPeriod){
# NOTE::: This code only handles displays that have left to right numbering. Future upgrade will include full relative screen handling. Because it would be awesome!
#Log some things
logthis ("F: mooseMove function called with paramaters;")
logthis (" screenNumber = "+$screenNumber)
logthis (" xCoords = "+$xCoords)
logthis (" yCoords = " +$yCoords)
logthis (" label = " + $label)
logthis (" isrelative = " + $isrelative)
logthis ("F: calculating absolute coordinates")
#Set Absolute X coordinates of the screen (which are relative to the entire screen canvas)
$absolutexCoords = $xCoords + ($baseScreenSizeX * $screenNumber)
$absoluteyCoords = $yCoords
$coords = "$($absolutexCoords),$($absoluteyCoords)"
logthis (" ... "+$coords)
logthis ("F: moving mouse now to screen " + $screenNumber + ", relative coordinates: x=" + $xCoords + ", y=" + $yCoords + ", absolute coordinates: "+$coords)
# move the mouse
[Windows.Forms.Cursor]::Position = $coords
# perform left mouse click using mooseClick function
mooseClick
logthis ("F: sleeping for: " + $sleepPeriod +" seconds to allow for screen rendering")
sleep $loadWaitPeriod
mooseHome
return
}
# ====================== Perform left mouse click
function mooseClick
{
logthis ("F: left mouse clicking now")
$SendMouseClick::mouse_event(0x00000002, 0, 0, 0, 0); #Left Mouse Down
$SendMouseClick::mouse_event(0x00000004, 0, 0, 0, 0); #Left Mouse Up
return
}
# ====================== Grab ScreenShot of screen X
function screenshot($displaynumber,$screenshotname) {
logthis ("F: Performing screen capture of display "+$displaynumber)
#$bounds = [Drawing.Rectangle]::FromLTRB($screen.Left, $screen.Top, $screen.right, $screen.bottom)
#$bounds = [Drawing.Rectangle]::FromLTRB(-236, -1080, 1684, 0)
#calculating cooridinates for screen capture
logthis("#calculating cooridinates for screen capture")
$captureLeft = $baseScreenSizeX * $displaynumber
$captureTop = 0 # fixed value in this version
$captureRight = ($baseScreenSizeX * $displaynumber) + 1920
$captureBottom = 1080 # fixed value in this version
$bounds = [Drawing.Rectangle]::FromLTRB($captureLeft, $captureTop, $captureRight, $captureBottom)
$bmp = New-Object Drawing.Bitmap $bounds.width, $bounds.height
$graphics = [Drawing.Graphics]::FromImage($bmp)
logthis("F: Screen capturing from absolute range:")
logthis(" Left: "+$captureLeft)
logthis(" Top: "+$captureTop)
logthis(" Right: "+$captureRight)
logthis(" Bottom: "+$captureBottom)
# create image
$graphics.CopyFromScreen($bounds.Location, [Drawing.Point]::Empty, $bounds.size)
$path=$baseimagepath + $screenshotname + ".png"
logthis ("F: Saving screen capture as "+$path)
$bmp.Save($path)
$graphics.Dispose()
$bmp.Dispose()
}
function refreshIE($refreshStringRef)
{
# Function to refresh IE window with a specific name
logthis("F: Refreshing IE Where name of window contains '" + $refreshStringRef +"'")
$shell = new-object -ComObject shell.application
$shell.windows() |
Where-Object { $_.document.url -like $('*' + $refreshStringRef + '*')} |
ForEach-Object { $_.refresh() }
}
#endregion RoboClickyFunctions
#endregion FUNCTIONS
#region Mainline
# Step 1 - Refresh IE window containing application visualisation
refreshie -refreshStringRef "ie-application-window-name"
logthis ("waiting for ie-application-window-name")
sleep 30
# Step 2 - Move mouse around the visualisation using the mooseMove function, then snap an image of it using the screenshot function.
# Zone A
mooseMove -screenNumber 6 -xCoords 685 -yCoords 21 -label "Zone A" -isrelative $true -loadWaitPeriod 25
screenshot -displaynumber 6 -screenshotname "Dashboard_Zone_A"
# Zone B
mooseMove -screenNumber 6 -xCoords 797 -yCoords 21 -label "Zone B" -isrelative $true -loadWaitPeriod 25
screenshot -displaynumber 6 -screenshotname "Dashboard_Zone_B"
# Zone C
mooseMove -screenNumber 6 -xCoords 908 -yCoords 21 -label "Zone C" -isrelative $true -loadWaitPeriod 25
screenshot -displaynumber 6 -screenshotname "Dashboard_Zone_C"
# Zone D
mooseMove -screenNumber 6 -xCoords 1020 -yCoords 21 -label "Zone D" -isrelative $true -loadWaitPeriod 25
screenshot -displaynumber 6 -screenshotname "Dashboard_Zone_D"
# Zone E
mooseMove -screenNumber 6 -xCoords 1131 -yCoords 21 -label "Zone E" -isrelative $true -loadWaitPeriod 25
screenshot -displaynumber 6 -screenshotname "Dashboard_Zone_E"
# Zone F
mooseMove -screenNumber 6 -xCoords 1242 -yCoords 21 -label "Zone F" -isrelative $true -loadWaitPeriod 25
screenshot -displaynumber 6 -screenshotname "Dashboard_Zone_F"
# Zone G
mooseMove -screenNumber 6 -xCoords 1354 -yCoords 21 -label "Zone G" -isrelative $true -loadWaitPeriod 25
screenshot -displaynumber 6 -screenshotname "Dashboard_Zone_G"
# Zone H
mooseMove -screenNumber 6 -xCoords 1465 -yCoords 21 -label "Zone H" -isrelative $true -loadWaitPeriod 25
screenshot -displaynumber 6 -screenshotname "Dashboard_Zone_A"
# Zone etc...
mooseMove -screenNumber 6 -xCoords 1576 -yCoords 21 -label "Zone etc... and so on" -isrelative $true -loadWaitPeriod 25
screenshot -displaynumber 6 -screenshotname "Dashboard_Zone_Summary"
&$exitnow
#endregion Mainline