[request] Option to hide mouse cursor while doing find

[Kashyap]

since Sikuli X: the screenshot used to search has no mouse pointer visible.
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Find has failed a number of times for me just because the mouse cursor happened to overlap the image in question.
It would be nice if some kind of option made the mouse cursor disappear before doing the find.

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

Good idea and suggestion. Fully agree.

But I don't think, that this should be an option. It should be a general behaviour, to make the mouse cursor invisible during a find() operation (implicit or explicit).

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

as a circumvention, one could use a hover() before, to get the curser to a point on the screen, where it does nothing and is out of way.

On my Mac a good position is the upper left "apple", which normally is always there.

Unfortunately a pitfall in the moment is, that hover does not except a Match (bug reported), so you cannot use a saved find() or a Subregion(0,0,100,100).inside().find(), to boost performance by saving an extra screenshot.

You could say:

mouseGarage = find(<image of apple top left>)
click()
hover(MouseGarage)
wait()
click()
hover(MouseGarage)
find()
...

hover(Match) is on the list for 0.10.

The alternative using a click() is only usable, if you have something to click on, so nothing happens, but the app you are interested in does not loose focus.

[Gregor Kopka (mailfrom-launchpad-net)]

My solution under windows is to perform a mouseMove(Location(10000,10000)) to move the mouse to the bottom-right corner of the screen before doing the find.

[Gregor Kopka (mailfrom-launchpad-net)]

I oppose the request to auto-hide the mouse on find() operations since you can add that functionality with a few lines of python in case you need it.

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

With Sikuli X it is some lines of code packed in def() that moves the mouse to a safe place and then brings it back if needed.

These are my helpers stored in my generics lib, that I import in every script.

Settings.SaveMouseLocation = Location(0,10) # save place on Mac

def hideMouse():
 mmd = Settings.MoveMouseDelay
 Settings.MoveMouseDelay = 0
 Settings.SaveMouseLocationSaved = Env.getMouseLocation()
 mouseMove(Settings.SaveMouseLocation)
 Settings.MoveMouseDelay = mmd

def unhideMouse():
 mmd = Settings.MoveMouseDelay
 Settings.MoveMouseDelay = 0
 mouseMove(Settings.SaveMouseLocationSaved)
 Settings.MoveMouseDelay = mmd

I use Settings as temp storage to not have to use global and make usage clear.

usage:
hideMouse(); find(something); unhideMouse()

[Martin Cohen (martin-balazik)]

I have a serious problem with this. I'm testing a main-menu on Windows. I cannot simply move the mouse (as shown in those two snippets, as the menu would disappear). This way, I'm not able to test it at all.

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

@ Martin
you should not add questions in comments without subscribing (done it for you ;-)

As far as I understand:
When Sikuli X internally makes a screen capture in preparation for a search operation, then it is taken with the mouse cursor hidden. so this should not be a problem in your case.

[Martin Cohen (martin-balazik)]

Then maybe there was some other problem with the matching algorithm, ignore
me then :D

On 2 September 2012 12:13, RaiMan <email address hidden> wrote:

> @ Martin
> you should not add questions in comments without subscribing (done it for
> you ;-)
>
> As far as I understand:
> When Sikuli X internally makes a screen capture in preparation for a
> search operation, then it is taken with the mouse cursor hidden. so this
> should not be a problem in your case.
>
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> [request] Option to hide mouse cursor while doing find
>
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> New
>
> Bug description:
> Find has failed a number of times for me just because the mouse cursor
> happened to overlap the image in question.
> It would be nice if some kind of option made the mouse cursor disappear
> before doing the find.
>
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