Re: Simulating mouse input with gdk_event_put()?

[neoTheSavior <amit2517 gmail com>]

I am a newbie in Gtk word. I am also want to emulate Mouse click event at
given X, Y coordinates. Any help will be greatly appriciated.
Thanks



Bugzilla from dank kegel com wrote:
> I have figured out how to inject synthetic, or fake, keyboard events
> using gdk_event_put(), but I'm having trouble generating mock
> mouse events.  The function I'm trying to implement should take
> the X and Y coordinates of the click relative to the app's window,
> and generate a click sufficient to activate a button.
>
> I know about
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk/stable/gdk-Testing.html#gdk-test-simulate-button
> but the app I'm injecting events into doesn't use the gdk test suite,
> so that's not appropriate.
>
> I could probably inject events using X, but I'd like to try doing it
> using gdk_event_put().
>
> http://k3d.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/k3d/tags/k3d-0.7.0.0/k3dsdk/ngui/interactive.cpp
> seems to do this.  I've tried to boil this technique down to a trivial
> example derived from the gtk button tutorial; all my example
> does is put up the button, then when the user presses any key,
> it tries to simulate a mouse click on the button.
> For debugging purposes, I also warp the pointer to the
> location of the click, but that's just so you can see where the click
> ought to occur.
>
> My example is at http://kegel.com/gtk/button.c
> I can probably figure this out on my own, and will keep trying,
> but if anyone feels like having a look and pointing out
> what's wrong, I'd appreciate it.
> Thanks!
> - Dan
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