Get user mouse click

[Elis4]

Hello,

I’d like to create a tool (such as magic wand, pipet tool, etc). This tool needs an active current document.
So when the user executes my script, I’d like to :

1. change mouse cursor (optional)
2. get next user mouse left click

a) if the click was on the current document : retrieve document pixel coordinates and consume the click event,
b) if the click wasn’t on drawing (like if the user selects another tool, etc) : not consume user input

Is it possible from scripter ? Or from a python plugin ?
I couldn’t find any info in the libkis documentation or in other plugins, so any lead would be welcome

Thanks !

[halla]

No, this is not possible. You cannot make new tools using the scripting API.

[Elis4]

Ok, thanks. It there another common way ? Like may be create a plugin in C++ ? Or it will only be a special krita build but not a sharable plugin in the end ?

[halla]

Yes, you can write tools as plugins in C++: all tools in Krita are, technically, plugins. But those plugins need to be built for every platform separately.

[dk8]

Clicking with scripts

I am a beginner in programming. Is it possible to create a script that clicks on a specific position in the Krita canvas (for example, the current cursor position)? I would like to automate the process of switching to the continuous selection tool, clicking on an arbitrary position, extending the area, and so on. However, I could not find a function to do the clicking. Translated at DeepL

I don’t know if this will help with what you want to do, but I present this topic as a Python script that clicks on the mouse position.

Translated at DeepL