Animate Mouse Cursor Movement from Macro Script

Now you can animate mouse cursor movements at a configurable speed with the help of the "Animate Mouse to X,Y" macro action. This new mouse automation macro is available in version 18.1 and onward of this Windows Automation Tool. The screenshot below displays the new macro action in the Visible Action Selector and the Macro Selection drop-down menu.

With animation support, you can create automated presentations and visually see the movement of the mouse cursor. When the macro action is executed, it reads the current mouse cursor position and reads the Screen X and Screen Y coordinates specified for the action, then automates mouse movement from the current screen location to the specified coordinates. The mouse cursor is moved in a linear direction from the source location to the destination location. The speed and time delay for the mouse movement animation are configurable from the Other Settings screen as displayed in the screenshot below.

Note in the above screenshot of Other Settings, there are 2 fields which together control the mouse animation behavior for all the macro scripts. The first field allows you to configure the time delay between each consecutive mouse movement, and the second field is titled "Animation Speeder", whose default value is 1. A larger value for the Mouse Animation Speeder results in fewer automated mouse movement steps, which in turn results in faster mouse movement animation.