Simulating mouse clicks

Is there a way to do this? Mousestate and pupdate are great tools that I'd like to utilize in some tutorials. So, the user chooses a particular tutorial and "lets go" of the mouse, and the pointer moves around to various objects and shows how to manipulate them. The pupdate / mouse motion would be stored in an mtr. Also, hints could then pop up when the cursor goes over them (I haven't tested this but I imagine it works).

I'd like to be able to automatically "click" the objects themselves. As an alternative, I could include the clicked objects in the mtr, so they would activate at the right times. That's what I'm planning as of now, but was wondering whether the clicking was possible. Also, including some objects like multislider in the mtr can be problematic (though pattr could help with that too).

Also, is there a way to disable the mouse input temporarily? This could be good if using a networked patch in a lab and you want to get people's attention. In the past I just plopped a panel over the whole screen to hide the controls, which also works fine (and might be better than disabling people's precious mice, actually...)

Just curious, thanks!

--CJ