Trigger click with coordinates in javascript

[droopy]

Hi,

I would like a piece of javascript to trigger a click on a element (or even the whole window or document) WITH coordinates.

I know how to trigger a click with an element click() function (example: [webmasterworld.com...]

But there does not seem to be a way to send coordinates.

This is useful to simulate clicks on images, or on non html content, such as flash movies, or other plugins...

Thanks.

[daveVk]

On decent browsers
[developer.mozilla.org...]

On IE
look up document.createEventObject() and element.fireEvent()

[droopy]

I tried to use createEvent, initMouseEvent and dispatchEvent, but this does not seem to actually send an event to the flash movie.

If i add a onclick property to the <embed> element containing the flash movie, the onclick event handler get triggered by the dispatch event.

Its like the html embed object get the event, but not the actual embeded object...

[droopy]

And also, when i actually click on the flash movie, the onclick handler does not get triggered.

This is in Firefox 3.0, using a flash widget embedded as follows:

<embed id="bms" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.example.com/bms/cyprien" />

[edited by: whoisgregg at 2:11 pm (utc) on Sep. 9, 2009]
[edit reason] Exemplified Flash URL. :) [/edit]

[daveVk]

Sorry no experience of flash, try the flash forum if no luck here.