Re: mouse event handling

From: Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>
To: Nischal Rao <rao nischal gmail com>
Cc: gnome-list gnome org
Subject: Re: mouse event handling
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:50:50 +0000

On 15 Feb 2010, at 12:52, Nischal Rao wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to know how mouse events are handled in the gnome environment.
> Is it possible at any point of time to find out the all the UI
> elements(button, textbox etc) currently displayed on the screen that respond
> to mouse click events? Is there such an API?

This sounds like something the accessibility APIs should be able to help you with.  Some of the tools that test for accessibility coverage rely on this sort of information.

<http://projects.gnome.org/accessibility/>

Cheeri,
Calum.

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References:
- mouse event handling
  - From: Nischal Rao

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