simulate cursor motion from X,Y to X,Y

Question

I need to move mouse cursor from coordinates (800,300) to (100,600) with visible cursor movement. How can I do that? (I need to simulate motion only - I am getting mouse position with autopy module)

Answer 1

Directly from the docs:

import autopy

autopy.mouse.move(800, 300)
autopy.mouse.smooth_move(100, 600)

This first moves to the location and then linearly slides the mouse to the second location. With a combination of pauses, you can use autopy.mouse.move to move as slow or as fast as you want.

Edit by request: To a finer control over the smooth_move you can set the mouse position yourself. Here, I set the total_time to be 5.00 seconds, but you can change this to be as quick as you like.

from __future__ import division
import autopy
import time

x0, y0 = 800, 300
xf, yf = 100, 600

total_time = 5.00  # in seconds
draw_steps = 1000  # total times to update cursor

dx = (xf-x0)/draw_steps
dy = (yf-y0)/draw_steps
dt = total_time/draw_steps

for n in xrange(draw_steps):
    x = int(x0+dx*n)
    y = int(y0+dy*n)
    autopy.mouse.move(x,y)
    time.sleep(dt)