Re: Directing input to another app

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

brian_urioste@att.net writes:
> Does anybody know how to manipulate widgets in another
> X/GTK app from a GTK app?  I'm looking to do something
> like xkeycaps' "Type at window".
> 
> First I do a gdk_pointer_grab, wait for a button_release
> and get a GdkEventButton.  But now what?  
> 
> Questions:
> 
> 1) How do I take a GdkEventButton and determine what
> window was picked?  (I'm thinking I need to somehow use
> the event's x_root and y_root.  In X, the XButtonEvent
> provides the picked window id in the subwindow field).
> 
> 2) How do I redirect the input to that picked window? 
> (In xkeycaps, XSendEvent is used.)
> 

You can always use X - include gdk/gdkx.h - there's nothing wrong with
that when doing something that's already unportable like this.

But you might look at ee, gimp, and other apps that do screenshots to
see what they do.

Havoc