Extension of keyword Drag And Drop By Coordinates: make release of the mouse button flexible

So far the keyword “Drag And Drop By Coordinates” does the following:

First it moves the mouse to the start-point,
then presses the left mouse button,
then moves to the end-point in specified number of steps,
then releases the mouse button.

I’d suggest to add a boolean parameter “release” which controls whether the mouse button at the end is released or not.

The default value would be True so that nothing would change for existing calls of the keyword.

The extended keyword used in sequence allows to drag the mouse several times to different coordinates before the mouse button is released.

This would allow a more realistic simulation of user interaction.

And it would allow to test GUI elements that react permanently on the position of the mouse like virtual joysticks.

Suggestion to Browser/keywords/interaction.py, not tested yet:

OLD:

def drag_and_drop_by_coordinates(
        self, from_x: float, from_y: float, to_x: float, to_y: float, steps: int = 1
    ):  ...
        self.mouse_button(MouseButtonAction.down, x=from_x, y=from_y)
        self.mouse_move(x=to_x, y=to_y, steps=steps)
        self.mouse_button(MouseButtonAction.up)

NEW:

def drag_and_drop_by_coordinates(
        self, from_x: float, from_y: float, to_x: float, to_y: float, steps: int = 1, release: bool = True
    ):  ...
        self.mouse_button(MouseButtonAction.down, x=from_x, y=from_y)
        self.mouse_move(x=to_x, y=to_y, steps=steps)
        if release:
            self.mouse_button(MouseButtonAction.up)

[UliSei]

Agree. Thanks for that hint, just in time. If there aren’t any objections I am going to implement it next week with no_drop argument.

[aaltat]

Done in #1799