Re: Simulating a mouse click

[Bosko Andjelkovic <b andjelkovic planet nl>]

Well, I am trying to make a GNOME version of this win32 program:
http://home.planet.nl/~andje000/ac.html

I need to send a mouse click signal to the window beneath the cursor. In
the win32 API there is a function called mouse_event which does exactly
this, but I can't seem to find such a function in X so I need to do this
'manually' (i.e. detect the window under the cursor and then send a
mouse click signal to it). I hope that this answers your question about
what I am doing.

Bosko

> On Monday 19 May 2003 10:08, Bosko Andjelkovic wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Under X, you can detect mouse moment.  Keep in mind that X11 is an event 
> driven system - if you chose to use this signal, you'll get LOTS of events.
> 
> I think the GDK equivalent is GDK_MOTION_NOTIFY.  I believe you can also query 
> the mouse position too any time you like.  I know you can in X, and I'm sure 
> you can in GDK/GTK.
> 
> Can you tell me more about what you are doing and WHY you need this?  That 
> would help me a lot in helping me to get a solution to your problem.
> 
> -Rich
> 
> > 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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