Re: Simulating a mouse click

[rich <rich navosha com>]

Why do you need to simulate a mouse click?  You can detect when a pointer 
enters and leaves a window - perhaps you'd rather use that signal instead?

I don't know the string equivlanets, but here are the values for that:

GDK_ENTER_NOTIFY
GDK_LEAVE_NOTIFY

-Rich

On Tuesday 13 May 2003 09:29, Bosko Andjelkovic wrote:
> I am creating an application that uses gtk+ and creating the interface
> was easy, but what I need to code now is 'simulating' n mouse click at
> the cursors current position (e.g. if the cursor happens to be hovering
> over a menu and my applications fakes a mouse click, the menu would
> open). I know that I can send mouse signals to widgets inside my
> application's interface, but I need this for the whole screen (i.e.
> detect the cursors position and then send a mouse signal to the object
> on that position).
> Someone told me that GDK can do this, so I took a look at the GDK API,
> but I still don't know how to do this. I did find a function called
> gdk_display_get_pointer(), which may be what I need to detect the
> cursors position, but I am not sure since I can't get it to work. Can
> anyone help me further with this?
> Thanks in advance.
>
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