How to click+hold+move with xdotool?

I've digged on StackExchange and on the YouTube but everywhere only how to clicks and moves. My question is how to click+hold e.g. some desktop icon and move it to different location with xdotool or highlight area with mouse arrow on the desktop which also require click+hold+move? Here is a bit related question xdotool script to perform mouse moves and clicks but still different. As well I've tried to find in manual here xdotool - command-line X11 automation tool

There is written:xdotool lets you programmatically (or manually) simulate keyboard input and mouse activity, move and resize windows

But I cannot find how. Can anyone help please?

According suggestions I tried following:

So here is following:

#!/bin/sh
for i in 'seq 1 200'
do xdotool mousemove 1519 599 mousedown sleep 2 xdotool mousemove 1519 750 mousedown sleep 2 xdotool mousemove 1600 750 mouseup sleep 2
done

and it is just move the mouse but doesn't highlighting area on the desktop which is should be is left button of the muse is pushed down.

1 Answer

"Dragging" should work by first have xdotool press the mouse button with the mousedown command. Then issue the mousemove commands, and issue mouseup when done dragging.