Re: Replacing Test::WWW::Selenium::Catalyst with Gtk3::WebKit

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On 28.11.2011 09:22, Stefan Seifert wrote:
> So my new approach is to generate a key event at Gtk3 level and send it to the
> Webkit widget. After all this would be even more realisitc. But again this is
> quite difficult. There is a Gtk3::Gdk::Event class available, but no
> Gtk3::Gdk::Event::Key or Gtk3::Gdk::EventKey or anything like that. From
> reading the .gir file the latter should exist, but it just doesn't. If it's
> missing in the bindings, how could I add it? And even if I could create it, I
> still don't know how to actually set the keycode field in the struct. There's
> pretty much no documentation and lot's of guess work on how Perl maps to
> Gtk3...

Gtk3::Gdk::Event is one of the remaining construction sites for 
Glib::Object::Introspection/Gtk3 (the only other one is probably 
Gtk3::TreeIter in custom Gtk3::TreeModel implementations).

You can create new events with Gtk3::Gdk::Event->new($type):

  http://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-Events.html#gdk-event-new
  http://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-Events.html#GdkEventType

You can also read struct fields by accessing the correct union member:

  $event->key->{keyval}

But there's no support for setting struct fields yet.  (You can of 
course assign something to $event->key->{keyval}, but that won't change 
the underlying event object at the moment.)