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Have a new window appear next to current mouse location

shampton82 — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 18:11:53 GMT

Is it possible through JSL to get the location of the mouse and then have a new window open to the right of it? It seems straight forward enough but looking through the scripting help I couldn't figure it out. thanks for any pointers!

Steve

Re: Have a new window appear next to current mouse location

txnelson — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 10:30:27 GMT

The only way that I believe that one can get the mouse position from anywhere on the screen, would be through either the JMP extension into R or Python. Once the mouse position is returned, then JSL can create the New Window(), and then Move Window() to the desired position.

Re: Have a new window appear next to current mouse location

jthi — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 13:19:02 GMT

If you are using windows you could use powershell. Here is one example (might be good idea to return also number of display and not just coordinates):

Names Default To Here(1);

powershell_variables = Eval Insert("\[Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
$X = [System.Windows.Forms.Cursor]::Position.X
$Y = [System.Windows.Forms.Cursor]::Position.Y
Write-Output "X: $X | Y: $Y"]\", "¤");

//fix quotes and cleanup
quote="\!"";
escapedquote = "\!\\!"";	
Substitute Into(powershell_variables, quote, escapedquote);

r = Trim Whitespace(Run Program(
	Executable( "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" ),
	Options({powershell_variables}),
	Read Function("text")
));

I have usually managed these by opening new windows on top of current window() and then calculated the location based on that.

Re: Have a new window appear next to current mouse location

shampton82 — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 01:32:51 GMT

thanks for the suggested code. I'm not familiar with powershell so I just grabbed your code and ran it and got this in the log:

"Add-Type : Cannot add type. Definition of new types is not supported in this language mode.
At line:1 char:1
+ Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : PermissionDenied: (:) [Add-Type], PSNotSupportedException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotDefineNewType,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.AddTypeCommand

Unable to find type [System.Windows.Forms.Cursor].
At line:2 char:6
+ $X = [System.Windows.Forms.Cursor]::Position.X
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (System.Windows.Forms.Cursor:TypeName) [], RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : TypeNotFound

Unable to find type [System.Windows.Forms.Cursor].
At line:3 char:6
+ $Y = [System.Windows.Forms.Cursor]::Position.Y
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (System.Windows.Forms.Cursor:TypeName) [], RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : TypeNotFound

X: | Y:"

I didn't see anything returned that I could use for the position of the mouse. Am I missing something or do I need to do something to set up powershell? I'm using two monitors and running the script on my primary one.

Steve

Re: Have a new window appear next to current mouse location

txnelson — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 01:42:39 GMT

What is your version of JMP?

Are you running Windows 10?

Re: Have a new window appear next to current mouse location

shampton82 — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 02:44:39 GMT

JMP Pro 16.0, Windows 10 Enterprise version 10.0.19044

Re: Have a new window appear next to current mouse location

jthi — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 06:46:20 GMT

I'm not too familiar with powershell either, I only use it when I have to. You could try running that command

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
$X = [System.Windows.Forms.Cursor]::Position.X
$Y = [System.Windows.Forms.Cursor]::Position.Y
Write-Output "X: $X | Y: $Y"

directly in powershell and see if you get the same error. This is when I run powershell through commandline:

If I run the command by windows searching for powershell it seems to return similar error:

but if I run it again after the errors, it seems to return either string without coordinates or coordinates as it should.

Re: Have a new window appear next to current mouse location

shampton82 — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 18:16:51 GMT

I could get it to work through Windows Powershell ICE but not Windows Powershell, don't know what that means but just throwing it out there in case anyone else does!