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How to simulate a mouse click while holding the SHIFT key in Windows?

Hello I'm trying to simulate a mouse click while holding the SHIFT key. I have been trying to do this with the pynput module.

This is my code so far:

from pynput.keyboard import Key
from pynput.keyboard import Controller as Cont
from pynput.mouse import Button, Controller
import time

mouse = Controller()
keyboard = Cont()

with keyboard.pressed(Key.shift):
    mouse.position = (1892, 838)
    mouse.click(Button.left)

I know the code for holding the shift key is working (If I try to press the "a" button in the code I see an "A"). Also I know the mouse click is working. However, together it does not work.

Also I tried another code from a StackOverflow post: Pyautogui - Need to hold shift and click

I tried the following code from it:

import pyautogui

pyautogui.keyDown('shift')
pyautogui.click()
pyautogui.keyUp('shift')

This worked for a minute then it stopped working! Very strange. It fails like 9 out of 10 times.

Solution

  • You should add a timer to it most likely will work.

    import pyautogui
import time

#cordinates
cordinates = 100,100
pyautogui.keyDown('shift')
time.sleep(0.15)
pyautogui.click(cordinates)
time.sleep(0.15)
pyautogui.keyUp('shift')