Re: GTK3 -- query mouse pointer coordinates for keyboard input?

[Hrvoje Niksic <hrvoje niksic avl com>]

On 01/17/2014 11:21 PM, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 17:11 -0500, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> > Yeah. This is to maintain ABI compatibility. Technically, events have
> > private internal data, and you can use gdk_event_get_device(); to get
> > the
> > keyboard device for a key event.
> >
> > This isn't documented very well; we should perhaps clean this up.
>
> I guess current GTK3 Ruby bindings do not allow event_get_device() for
> keyboard events :-(

As a workaround, why not write a ruby extension with a trivial function 
that wraps event_get_device? I don't have experience writing ruby 
extensions (we use Python), but judging by 
http://www.rubyinside.com/how-to-create-a-ruby-extension-in-c-in-under-5-minutes-100.html 
it doesn't seem very complicated.

Once the ruby bindings get proper support for it, you can retire the 
extension.