I am attempting to make an automation for a browser game on kongregate, minequest. I've created a code that is supposed to click a series of buttons however while the mouse moves, the mouse doesn't always successfully click. No errors are given and each time I run the code different clicks fail. I have tried adding more and more time between clicks to the point that I now have 1 second wait times, repeat the clicks at least twice, etc. to try to ensure a click happens but clicks still don't always happen.
I have windows 10, mouse pointer scheme is set to none, I am using google chrome as the browser.
Edit: FYI I have made other automations that work just same with the same browser, same computer, etc. I currently have gotten this code working by having it click 10 times instead of 1 but that shouldn't be necessary and I would like to understand why this phenomenon is happening.
Sometimes an application might not react on "click", but on "button status". MouseClick might not have enough time between "Press" and "Release" for those applications to notice that the button is "down". (Your description ("working one time out of two to ten") supports this oppinion). To give that application a proper "Button is down", a mousedown, sleep, mouseup sequence should work.
If you don't have trouble with a mouseclick "by hand", a sleep time of 100 - 200 ms should be fine.