How to get pyautogui's click working on mac?

Question

pyautogui\'s click method\'s issue: I am running the script from Spyder, if I click anything on Spyder\'s window the click works fine.

If I execute a script to open Outl

Answer 1

I was also facing same issue, Here is what I tried :

Just add one more line pyautogui.dragTo() to focus on that particular selected area:

pyautogui.moveTo(990,28)
pyautogui.dragTo() 
pyautogui.click()

Answer 2

I just found out that in mac setting, I did not check the tip in front of PyCharm in privacy setting. After doing that, my pyautogui.click() function works.

Answer 3

To anyone who might stumble into the same issue on a Mac, I was able to get it working by using a workaround that is using the pynput library.

Code:

import pyautogui
from pynput.mouse import Button, Controller

mouse = Controller()
pyautogui.moveTo(x,y)
mouse.click(Button.left)

Answer 4

OS X Mojave, the following works for me:

    pyautogui.moveTo(pos)
    pyautogui.dragTo(button='left')

pyautogui.click() throws an attribute error but pyautogui.dragTo() works instead.