Re: Widget control

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Petro Verheuvel" <pverheuvel zonnet nl> writes:
> I want to start programming an embedded application using GTK. I
> have no keyboard or mouse. Instead, some special button-events are
> received through a properiety ioctl(). Now, what is the best way to
> control the widgets/buttons? I need to select items from a toolbar,
> present some clists, actually nothing complex. Should i use calls in
> which widgets and buttons are activated or is it possible/easier to
> translate the button-events in signals and let standard GTK handling
> take place ?! If the signal-thing is possible, how may it be done?
>
> Any ideas welcome.

There's a gdk_event_put() you can use to put events in the queue, but
you have to be very careful not to break the semantics that GTK
expects.

It would be easier to maintain those semantics if you added support
for your device to X or to the framebuffer port of GTK, maybe.

Havoc