Re: Simulating clicks on the DOM node of the GMAIL page.

Hello Martijn,

I tried using the sendMouseEvent using the following code:

var req = window.QueryInterface(Components.interfaces.nsIInterfaceRequestor);
var utils = req.getInterface(Components.interfaces.nsIDOMWindowUtils);
utils.sendMouseEvent("mousedown", xCor, yCor, 0, 1, 0);
utils.sendMouseEvent("mouseup", xCor, yCor, 0, 1, 0);

Here xCor and yCor are the position where I want to click. But still
it does not work and i get an exception saying:
Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)
[nsIDOMWindowUtils.sendMouseEvent]

Any ideas as to why this is happeneing? My code executes with chrome
priveledge from an extension in firefox, and I am trying to simulate a
click on an element present on the page.

I appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Amit

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Martijn <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know if you're using trunk or branch, but if you're using
> trunk and you have chrome privileges, you can use the sendMouseeEvent
> from nsIDOMWindowUtils:
> http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/dom/public/idl/base/nsIDOMWindowUtils.idl
>
> Regards,
> Martijn
>
>
> On 2/26/08, stony_dreams <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> >  I want to simulate click events on the elements on the Gmail page.
> >  Problem is, i am able to simulate it on the elements on the side bar
> >  (viz. compose mail, inbox, etc) but was not able to use the same
> >  function for the actual emails.
> >
> >  I suspected this to be a security issue as when i do a createEvent(),
> >  it should correspond to the document object of the container frame.
> >  But this also did not work. Sometimes, the page just hangs when my
> >  simulate click function is called. I am not sure whether gmail is
> >  doing somethin fishy... Can anybody shed some light?
> >
> >  I used the normal click function on the mozilla examples page:
> >  http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:document.createEvent and i am
> >  sure that i am calling this function on the exact element on the DOM,
> >  which i confirmed using the DOM inspector.
> >
> >  Thanks in advance...
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