Re: Widget control

[Harring Figueiredo <harringf yahoo com>]

   There is an article on Embedded Linux Journal (January/Feb 2002) Issue 07.
The article was written by Chuck Groom (cgroom bluemug com)
   He is describing the same environment you described here (i.e. no
keyboard/mouse). Sorry, I could not find any web site for it.

   Harring


--- Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> wrote:
> "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
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Harring Figueiredo

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