Re: How to get scroll bar infromation in C?

[Patryk Zawadzki <patrys pld-linux org>]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:50 PM, frank zhang<fz2018 gmail com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>      I hope I am posting to the proper forum. Please let me know where I
> should post if this is not the right one.
>
>      I am writing a program in C and encounter a problem. I want to get the
> scroll bar information for an existing application such as a text file or a
> webpage opened in GNOME desktop. If the existing application window is the
> currently active window and it has scroll bars, my program needs to be able
> to move the mouse pointer onto the scroll bar and scroll the contents of the
> window up/down/left/right depending on the user choice. For example, when
> the user holds the 'CTRL' key and 'Right Arrow' key from the keyboard, the
> mouse pointer will jump from the current position to the middle of
> horizontal scroll bar and the window contents scroll to the right.
>
>       Could anyone shed some light on how to use GNOME API or GTK+ to do
> this?

I think you're better off exploring GNOME a11y interfaces (atk). Also
you might be able to get away with feeding applications with fake
mouse wheel events.

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Patryk Zawadzki