Re: Simulation of key presses and skins/engines

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 17:36 +0200, Joaquim Duran wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I've two questions about gtk/gtkmm:
> 
> 1 - In the application that we've developing, we use a customized keypad
> for used input. We haven't any kernel drive, so we have developed
> functions to read the key presses from user space. I would like to know
> if it is possible to generate key-pressed events in GTKmm, as if they
> have been received from X server.

Maybe you could mention more about how this keypad should look or
behave. I suspect that you really need a custom "GTK+ Input Method".

If it's a multi-press keypad then you might just be able to use the
multipress input method that I mention here:
http://www.murrayc.com/blog/permalink/2006/12/22/creating-gtk-input-methods/

> 2 - Could someone tell me the difference between 'theme' (or 'skin') and
> 'theme engine' ?

I think that themes use features in specific theme engines.
Here's a relevant document that I found:
http://www.gtk.org/~otaylor/gtk/2.0/theme-engines.html

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