Re: Emitting events to a non-visible widget

["Tristan Van Berkom" <tvb gnome org>]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Zan Dobersek <zandobersek gmail com> wrote:
> Is there any way to emit events to a non-visible GtkWidget? By non-visible,
> I'm thinking of a GtkWidget that never gets shown, i.e. gtk_widget_show_all
> or similar never gets called on this widget.
>
> Just to clarify on the events - I'd like to emit button, emotion and key
> events.
> As far as I've tried, I saw that the problem occurs because no useful x_root
> or y_root can actually be set to event, when specifically talking about a
> GdkEventButton event. I also fairly doubt about widget's window validity
> when that widget is not visible, since a window needs to be set in a
> GdkEvent.
>
> Can anyone suggest a solution or an effective bypass? I thank you sincerely.

Sure, lets start with why do you want to send an event to an invisible widget
in the first place ? I'm sure we can figure something more appropriate than
creating an invisible button...

Cheers,
              -Tristan