Current cursor position in text box

[atanasj]

I'd like to get the current cursor position in a text box, so that I can send a left or right click mouse event there. I have some code that works for left and right mouse clicks (borrowed from smarter people than me!), however will send the mouse event to the text box, but not on the spot where the text is. Is it possible to get the coordinates of the current / or last entered text? Below is my code for a left mouse click in a text box:

hs.hotkey.bindSpec(
  {"cmd", "pagedown"},
  function()
    local function getFocusedElementPosition()
      local systemElement = ax.systemWideElement()
      if not systemElement then return nil end
      local currentElement = systemElement:attributeValue("AXFocusedUIElement")
      if not currentElement then return nil end
      -- we don't want to get position for anything that isn't a text field
      if not axUtils.isTextField(currentElement) then return nil end
      local position = currentElement:attributeValue('AXPosition')
      if not position then return nil end
      return {
        x = position.x,
        y = position.y
      }
    end
    local currentApp = hs.application.frontmostApplication()
    local axApp = ax.applicationElement(currentApp)
    axApp:setAttributeValue('AXEnhancedUserInterface', true)
    axApp:setAttributeValue('AXManualAccessibility', true)
    hs.eventtap.leftClick(getFocusedElementPosition())
  end
)

EDIT

Link to code ideas for above here, posted by @kittywhiskers.

[MuhammedZakir]

I found this -- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6544311/how-to-get-global-screen-coordinates-of-currently-selected-text-via-accessibilit.

Try those kAX...Attribute constants mentioned in that answer. I haven't used this Hammerspoon API, but looking at your code, it looks like you have to remove k & Attribute from the name.

[atanasj]

Thanks for the tip @MuhammedZakir… I'm not a programmer, so unfortunately the skills to dissect and transplant that to hammerspoon are beyond me. Is there any other resources you could recommend that could help me implement your suggestion?

[muescha]

@atanasj did you find a solution?