Re: Events and Signals

[Olexiy Avramchenko <olexiy irtech cn ua>]

Ariel Fritz wrote:

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>  
> I´m writing an application that receive udp packets. It depending on 
> the kind of info of the packet I show some messages in Gtk_Label.
> But now I´d like to add a menu to my application, and I´d like to 
> control the menu with network events.
> I was thinking to use ItemFactory to make menu, but I cant image how 
> to control it without mouse or keboard events.
> I was taking a look to mailing list and on line documentation but I 
> couldn´t find information to clear this doubt.
> It is posible to use gtk_signal_emit() to emulate a keyboard event to 
> manage the menu each time that I receive a network packet?
> Any help I´ll thank a lot.

You can emulate keyboard events with gdk_event_put() function:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-Events.html#gdk-event-put
You can also search gtk-list and gtk-app-devel list on "gdk_event_put".

   Olexiy