mouse movement don't work with game window?

[moroclash]

I make small program to make some movement and clicks using pyautogui

while True:
            pyautogui.click()
            time.sleep(1)
            pyautogui.moveTo(300, 500)
            pyautogui.click()
            time.sleep(1)
            pyautogui.moveTo(1000, 500)
            pyautogui.click()
            time.sleep(1)
            pyautogui.moveTo(1000, 100)
            pyautogui.click()
            time.sleep(1)
            pyautogui.moveTo(300, 100)

it's work fine with main window, but don't work when focus on Game widow, so what's problem?

[mikebvansickle]

@moroclash I built a similar script to move around and pick up items using locateOnScreen(), however I had no issues.

The one thing i can think of is it may potentially not work if the game uses Fullscreen. I habitually use Windowed (Borderless), so that's what I ran mine in and it worked fine. If you're using Fullscreen, I'd suggest giving Windowed (Borderless) or vice versa.

Perhaps the python script in unable to access the window for some reason? That explanation seems weird and a stretch at best, but I'm pretty new to all this. Give different window approaches a shot and let us know what happens.

[Cazzola01]

You have to use PyDirectInput. The PyDirectInput controls the Windows DirectX, which make so you can use it to move the mouse in-game.

[matrndev]

PyDirectInput doesn't work either.

[DarkPrince27]

@mikebvansickle dude u have no f@cking idea how much i love you. Ive been struggling to get my locate on screen to work for the past few days and its been more than 30 hours ive spent on it. I seached forums and read documents but the locate would not work unless I had the shell open in the foreground. after trying without fullscreen it finally worked.

[JustArtiom]

is there any update? 😂 since 2021? for me PyDirectInput doesnt work (game: valorant)

[CoffeSiberian]

I had exactly the same problem, but I found this library that solved my problem https://pypi.org/project/PyAutoIt/

[disabled01]

I had exactly the same problem, but I found this library that solved my problem https://pypi.org/project/PyAutoIt/

how pyautoit solve the problem of mouse movment for you ?

[matrndev]

I used AHK. Python wrapper: https://pypi.org/project/ahk/

[ShadowCooper]

I had exactly the same problem, but I found this library that solved my problem https://pypi.org/project/PyAutoIt/

how pyautoit solve the problem of mouse movment for you ?

The documentation is bad as it doesn't even give a list of features or a tutorial or anything (unless I'm missing something), but looking at the source code there's a mouse_move() function that worked for me (tried pyautogui and pydirectinput and they both didn't work).

I used AHK. Python wrapper: https://pypi.org/project/ahk/

Wow, didn't even know this existed, I've been using so many different libraries to automate something lol.. thanks for putting this here, it looks awesome