I want the ability to key in a command that forces cursor placement to a specific X:Y coordinates on the screen, so that when my snippet interacts with menus on the screen, I can be sure the cursor will not mistakenly be over one of the menus thereby sometimes causing undesired actions to take place.
This is a feature that many other apps such as Macro Scheduler provide as part of their standard tool kit for users. Would love to see something like this with Text Blaze too! Sometimes, you just gotta get the cursor out of the way, and you cannot always count on the user to quickly move their mouse so it gets the cursor out of the way.
Really hoping this feature has legs. The problem has existed for quite some time and following a recent Salesforce update, it has only gotten worse. Having this ability to force cursor placement / coordinates would be an absolute game changer! Right now, I cannot guarantee that snippets will select the correct menu items via Auto Pilot.
Hi Brad! Apologies for not responding to your post earlier. I believe your request is in the context of the Chrome extension, so I will respond in that way.
Moving the mouse pointer to a specific (X, Y) coordinate is not possible in the Chrome extension, due to technical restrictions imposed by the browser. Is there any other way we can help get the menu away from the mouse pointer?
In the future, it might work if the extension<>desktop app could communicate with each other and the extension could ping the desktop app to do just this one command. Although this is far on the roadmap so I cannot make any promises yet.
Thank you Gaurang. I believe I understand. In my original post, I referenced the functionality working in another product called Macro Scheduler. I presume that is because the macros run as compiled .exe files locally as opposed to on the browser itself.
Instead of forcing the mouse pointer to specific coordinates, is there a way that the extension could somehow remove the pointer from view instead? Or is that not possible because with the extension, the pointer is really controlled by the machine?
Correct, the extension cannot control the mouse pointer position. At best it can change its icon to look different but that doesn't affect the functionality.
To work around your original problem, could you use {click} with a selector to close any open menus that might potentially interfere with the autopilot?