Control mouse click with Python

5.22K viewsCSS Questionspython
0
0 Comments

Hi Remotify forum members,

I see that Remotify has a user.py script that can run methods (a python class), can I run python code here that I currently run in terminal?

I have a python script (that I run manually) that listen for a specific midi command (sent from a midi controller when a button is pressed), when this command is received it clicks the ‘Type’ area (see attached picture) in Ableton’s browser to activate it so that I can copy in clip packs from a folder to tracks (Deck A and B). I do this as I have no other way of Activating Ableton’s browser.

I’m a bit of a new beginner in scripting and with Ableton so I would like to know if it is possible before I spend to much time on it, is this something that can be done with Remotify and python?

These are my imports in my python script;

import argparse
import os
import signal
import sys
import time
import rtmidi
from pynput.mouse import Button, Controller as MouseController
from pynput.keyboard import Key, Controller as KeyboardController

Joachim Answered question

9 Answers

0
Joachim 0 Comments

Hi Glenn,

thanks for answering!

Yes you are correct, I only click on ‘Type’ in order to bring Live’s Browser into focus.

From what I understand the Max 4 Life’s LOM (The Live Object Model) is more or les the same as the undocumented Control Surface Scripts Model (maybe I can figure out how to use “Focus View”  as you suggested in my Control Surface Scripts).

When I have the browser in focus I use ‘down’, ‘up’, ‘right’ keys (my current python script catches Midi commands from my controller and sends these navigation keys) to select files (a clip pack). I then use Command + C to copy and then I send key ‘1’ or ‘2’ (tracks one and two are key mapped to 1 and 2) to select tracks in Ableton Live’s session view where I send Command + V to past the clips.

As I’m a beginner with Ableton Live and scripting in general I would be happy if you could give me some more pointers or maybe even some code examples (if you happen to have some).

Edit

I played around with Remotify and I now see where the picture you include comes from.

Dose this mean that Max 4 Life’s LOM (reversed engineered pyton version of it) is available from within Remotify?

Joachim Edited answer
You are viewing 1 out of 9 answers, click here to view all answers.

Categories