How do I implement mouse click in Awesomium?

Question

I wrote this code to test the Inject mouse method but it is not working for me. The test is supposed to click in the google text box search area, but the box never gets highlighted. Any idea why?

Google's page does load. The code runs (confirmed through break points), but nothing happens.

public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        private IWebView webView;
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            initiate();

        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
         {
            click(650, 405);
        }

        private async void initiate()
        {

            WebSession session = WebCore.CreateWebSession(
@"C:\SessionDataPath", WebPreferences.Default);
            webView = WebCore.CreateWebView(
      this.ClientSize.Width,
      this.ClientSize.Height, session, WebViewType.Window
     );
            webView.ParentWindow = this.Handle;
            webView.Source = new Uri("http://www.google.com");
            await Task.Delay(30000);
            click(650, 405);

        }

        public void click(int x, int y)
        {
            webView.InjectMouseMove(x, y);
            webView.InjectMouseDown(MouseButton.Left);
            webView.InjectMouseUp(MouseButton.Left);
        }
    }

I tried to get this code to work with chromium handle by looking at the proper chromium class but it didn't work

  private async Task<bool> clickCoorindate(Point point)
        {
            webView.FocusView();
            int x = point.X; // X coordinate of the click
            int y = point.Y; // Y coordinate of the click
            IntPtr handle = webView.ProcessHandle;
            StringBuilder className = new StringBuilder(100);
            while (className.ToString() != "Chrome_RenderWidgetHostHWND") // The class control for the browser
            {
                handle = GetWindow(handle, 5); // Get a handle to the child window
                GetClassName(handle, className, className.Capacity);
                if (className.ToString() == "Chrome_RenderWidgetHostHWND")
                    handle = Handle;

            }

            IntPtr lParam = (IntPtr)((y << 16) | x); // The coordinates
            IntPtr wParam = IntPtr.Zero; // Additional parameters for the click (e.g. Ctrl)
            const uint downCode = 0x201; // Left click down code
            const uint upCode = 0x202; // Left click up code
            const uint moveCode = 0x200;

            SendMessage(handle, downCode, wParam, lParam); // Mouse button down
            SendMessage(handle, upCode, wParam, lParam); // Mouse button up
            Thread.Sleep(20);
            SendMessage(handle, downCode, wParam, lParam); // Mouse button down
            SendMessage(handle, upCode, wParam, lParam); // Mouse button up

            return true;

        }

Answer 1

As mentioned in the documentation (see: WebViewType), a windowed view captures all input itself and you cannot inject input programmatically using Awesomium API (you could do this as you tried, by sending native Windows messages to the appropriate HWND but it's not suggested and straightforward procedure).

To be able to inject input programmatically using the InjectXXX methods, make sure your view is of type offscreen.