[Question] Can PSG move the mouse in screens types other than Graph and canvas

[kkelly3137]

Type of Issue (Enhancement, Error, Bug, Question)

Question

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Environment

Operating System

Other version Buster 10

PySimpleGUI Port (tkinter, Qt, Wx, Web)

tkinter

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Versions

Python version (sg.sys.version)

3.7.4 (default, Aug 13 2019, 15:17:50)
[Clang 4.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_401/final)]

PySimpleGUI Version (sg.__version__)

4.60.4

GUI Version (tkinter (sg.tclversion_detailed), PySide2, WxPython, Remi)

8.6.8

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Your Experience In Months or Years (optional)

Years Python programming experience
Years Programming experience overall
No Have used another Python GUI Framework? (tkinter, Qt, etc) (yes/no is fine)

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Detailed Description

Before I use the pyautogui to do mouse movenments, is there a way in PSG to move the mouse in "regular" tkinter type windows? I get that canvas and graph type windows have this option-ish but those type of windows are not my application

My issue is when my users press a button the mouse cursor stays on the button leavig it in hover-over mode and or hightlighted. since my project has multiple screens the mouse pointer may layover other buttons highkighting them as the user moves from screen to screen. For a buttons on a touchscreen application this looks like shit.

two solutions in my head ATM. Move the mouse to a shared empty space that all windows would have or I guress change the "mouseover_colors" and "hightlight_colors" to none? or the screen BG colour?

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[PySimpleGUI]

If you want to move the mouse to any arbitrary location on your screen, outside of your window, with your window not having focus any longer, and do things like click the button, then pyautogui is the way to go. It's what I use.

[PySimpleGUI]

For a buttons on a touchscreen application....

For a touchscreen that's only going to be used as a touchscreen, you can turn off the mouse cursor entirely. It depends on your application and how you want it to look/feel. Just wanted you to know it's an option.

EDIT - Regarding highlight colors... I would turn those off if your mouse is going to just sit on top of the button.

[kkelly3137]

I did turn off the mouse cursor so it's invisible to the user and setting the mouseover_color (since in linux on RPi) to the current fg and bg colour seems to be one solution to the problem.

If I'm indeed chatting with the Mike that wrote PSG, I want to personally give you big thanks for your efforts on PSG. It really is cool, and what an expert in tkinter you must be by now. I go buy you some coffee's later on today ...

[PySimpleGUI]

Thank you so very much for the really kind words. I'm glad you're enjoying the experience. Mission accomplished!

Jason is much more of a tkinter expert than I am . He gets the credit for solving the tricky tkinter problems as he answers so many support questions and it's not at all unusual for me to "borrow" the code he's written in these issue solutions and put it into the PySimpleGUI code.

I think you've got the right idea with the mouseover_color since, as you've said, you're on Linux. I hadn't thought about the mouse staying over a button on a touchscreen. Thank you for sharing the details. Very helpful to know this.