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Finding offsets for UI elements?

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Hello everyone!

I was previously using the Desktop Recorder which for one of my computers for a remote desktop was using UI Elements and offsets to determine where to click. This was fast and worked really well, however, my other computer when recording a remote desktop uses "Move mouse to image" and is around 5x slower than UI Elements.

I wanted to recreate the UI Elements on the computer that recording images and mouse movement and input offsets for UI Elements however I'm having a heck of a time trying to figure out how to find offsets (x and y numerical values). Any help would be appreciated! This would pertain to offset x and offset y if applicable. In most cases from what I saw in the recording it was always an x offset and moved the cursor to a position within that UI Element first.

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Hi @Slack
See if this helps. It's from old WinAutomation docs, but works in PAD.
How to find the coordinates of a web element | Microsoft Docs

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Thank you! @Anonymous

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I'm actually OK with having the mouse move to an image but it's so slow it's hard to justify even turning it on.

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I don't know how many of these you have and how much time you want to spend doing math, but the "Move Mouse" command has live mouse position coordinates in it. So if you get the center of the web element and the center of the button (or link) you want to click, you can subtract the two 'x(link)-x(element) and y(link)-y(element)' and get your offset.

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Hey @MichaelAnnis wow that's brilliant thank you!

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