OK - had a few minutes, coded up the following, which seems to work fairly well.
In my hotkeys macro, I added the following two lines:
; Jiggle mouse macro; for ProphetX chart price bubbles.
#j::Run JiggleCursor.ahk
What this does is allow me to position the cursor wherever I want, then press the Win+j keys and it'll crank up the macro. The cursor will then move up -slightly- , wait 5 seconds, then move back down for 5 secs. Loops this way until I move the cursor away a bit, at which time the macro terminates. Very handy...works for me, so I'm probably done enhancing this little baby, but feel free to bootleg the code and modify as you wish.
I'm not much of an autohotkey coder, as I find the language very cumbersome and I don't have the time nor desire to become a guru in this stuff. I have, however, invested enough time to learn how to do what I need to do and I'm OK with that.
Now the macro...shove this code into a flat file with filetype '.ahk', setup a hotkey as listed above in a separate hotkeys macro and go to town
Unfortunately, this board has a really crappy editor, so all of the indenting and spacing is lost, along with some readability, but you can reformat it a bit on your own. Note: the ';' semi-colon begins a comment in this language.
; Recommended setup stuff from the autohotkey.com folks...
#NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
SendMode Input ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.
CoordMode, Mouse, screen ; need this for multi-monitor setups.
; This code jiggles the cursor every few secs, to keep a ProphetX price bubble active
; past the default of 10 secs. Move cursor only up/down to stay near the price bar.
; Two pixels is small and barely visible; change if you wish...
; Exits if you move the cursor away from the starting location, as measured by xpos on X-axis.
; To use, position cursor, then call this code via a pre-existing hotkey definition...
MouseGetPos, xpos, ypos
Loop
{
MouseMove, xpos, ypos + 2 ; jiggle it...
Sleep 5000 ; 5 secs...for now.
MouseGetPos, newxpos, newxypos
IF (newxpos <> xpos) {
EXITapp
}
MouseMove, xpos, ypos ; un-jiggle it...
Sleep 5000
MouseGetPos, newxpos, newxypos
IF (newxpos <> xpos) {
EXITapp
}
}
#e::EXITApp ; Don't -have- to have this line in here, but it doesn't hurt, either :)
EXITapp ; bye bye