Re: Simulating a mouse click

[Bosko Andjelkovic <b andjelkovic planet nl>]

Well, I need to send a mouse signal to a specific location on the screen (the position of the cursor) so that the user doesnt have to click. Can someone tell me how that is done?

Bosko

> 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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