slewis@cbnewsm.att.com (scott.b.lewis) (06/26/91)
A (simple?) question for all of you Xperts: Is there a program out there that will send an arbitrary event (e.g. a "fake" mouse button press) to an arbitrary window? I would like to send an arbitrary event to a window from a shell, and have that event processed by the program as if it had come to that window normally. Preferably, the window and event would be parameters to such a program. This is fairly close to the notion of journalling, so perhaps there is a good journalling program out there that will work? I've seen the NeWS journalling program, and it comes close, but does not have quite enough flexibility. BTW, I'm using OpenWindows 2.0 on a Sun Sparc 1+. Please respond via email to: slewis@hound.att.com. Scott Please forgive if this is well-known...I looked in the faq...
mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse) (06/26/91)
> Is there a program out there that will send an arbitrary event (e.g. > a "fake" mouse button press) to an arbitrary window? Look at XSendEvent; it's about the closest thing the core protocol provides. > I would like to send an arbitrary event to a window from a shell, and > have that event processed by the program as if it had come to that > window normally. I don't know of any wrapper program, though it shouldn't be hard to write one. If you use XSendEvent, note that the receiving client can tell that the event is a fake event. Some programs (eg xterm) can be set to ignore such events; some of them may do this by default (offhand, I don't know whether xterm is such a one). Other programs ignore this bit and process the event normally.... I think there is an extension (I forget the name, though rummaging in my memory turns up "xtrap" as being possibly significant) which is designed specifically to do journalling. If this is right, and you can find a copy, that should be capable of doing what you want. > BTW, I'm using OpenWindows 2.0 on a Sun Sparc 1+. You may find you have to switch to the MIT server (which will not render most OW clients useless, though a few that use NeWS will of course break). The reason for this is that if you have to install an extension, you'll need source to your server. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
rkz@scrc.symbolics.COM (Randolph K. Zeitvogel) (06/26/91)
Date: 25 Jun 91 19:22:18 GMT From: slewis@cbnewsm.att.com (scott.b.lewis) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu A (simple?) question for all of you Xperts: Is there a program out there that will send an arbitrary event (e.g. a "fake" mouse button press) to an arbitrary window? I would like to send an arbitrary event to a window from a shell, and have that event processed by the program as if it had come to that window normally. Preferably, the window and event would be parameters to such a program. I am interested in this too. Could you forward the responses that you receive to me. Thanks Randy Zeitvogel 8 New England Executive Park Symbolics MACSYMA division Burlington, MA 01803 Internet: rkz@symbolics.com Phone: (617) 221-1250