Simulate mouse/button presses?

[Jim Norton <jimnorton jimnorton org>]

Greetings,

I have some unique embedded hardware that has a touchscreen device  
that doesn't have any Linux drivers to make it appear as a mouse etc.  
The touchscreen communicates via USB using a proprietary protocol.

I have built a simple WebKitGTK 1.6 web-browser running on gtk+  
2.24.14 that runs on the embedded hardware and receives the  
touchscreen touch events.

Currently, when the user is interacting with the loaded web-page by  
touching the screen my application sees them and generates mouse  
button presses to be processed by GDK and sent to webkit using  
gdk_test_simulate_button(). This appears to work fairly well.

However, I'm wondering if there is a better/ more proper way?

Would using gdk_event_new() and gdk_event_put() be a better option?
https://developer.gnome.org/gdk/unstable/gdk-Events.html#gdk-event-put

If so can anybody provide a small sample or snippet of code that  
demonstrates how to use gdk_event_put() and setup the GdkEventButton  
event fields?

Any advise would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Jim