Emulating a right-click on the root window

2002-07-15 Thread Scott Furt
I'm not familiar with X programming, so please bear with me when i ask this question :-) Is there anyway to send an event/atom/whatever to the root window to say hey buddy, someone right-clicked on you, handle it ?? I'm thinking that if it is possible, a simple app. could be written and called

Re: Emulating a right-click on the root window

2002-07-15 Thread Roy Wood
Is there anyway to send an event/atom/whatever to the root window to say hey buddy, someone right-clicked on you, handle it ?? I've done just that by patching bbkeys. I'm getting the patch ready to submit to the bbkeys folks, but here's the basic idea: I added the following actions to

Re: Emulating a right-click on the root window

2002-07-15 Thread Roman Neuhauser
Subject: Re: Emulating a right-click on the root window Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 10:55:59 -0400 From: Roy Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: blackbox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there anyway to send an event/atom/whatever to the root window to say hey buddy, someone right-clicked on you, handle

Re: Emulating a right-click on the root window

2002-07-15 Thread Roy Wood
unfortunately (with respect to the root menu navigation w/ keyboard) this is more of a hack than a solution. two reasons: No kidding. 1) you typically won't want to send i've just clicked the lmb, but show me the menu. for this to work, blackbox would have to have

Re: Emulating a right-click on the root window

2002-07-15 Thread Derek Cunningham
On Mon, Jul15,02 11:17, Roy Wood wrote: 1) you typically won't want to send i've just clicked the lmb, but show me the menu. for this to work, blackbox would have to have keybindings, which is not the case... kinda chicken and egg. That is the preferred solution, but there

Re: Emulating a right-click on the root window

2002-07-15 Thread xOr
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 11:29:34AM -0400, Derek Cunningham wrote: On Mon, Jul15,02 11:17, Roy Wood wrote: 1) you typically won't want to send i've just clicked the lmb, but show me the menu. for this to work, blackbox would have to have keybindings, which is not the

Re: Emulating a right-click on the root window

2002-07-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
1) you typically won't want to send i've just clicked the lmb, but show me the menu. for this to work, blackbox would have to have keybindings, which is not the case... kinda chicken and egg. That is the preferred solution, but there seems to be lots of resistance to the

Re: Emulating a right-click on the root window

2002-07-15 Thread Es Bee Ex
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:38:00 -0700 (PDT) Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once this is fully working then we move on to library separation. In here we also have the bbtools rewrite -- pager, keys, etc. Do you have an outline of blackboxlib or some documents(even a draft) on it

Re: Emulating a right-click on the root window

2002-07-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-Jul-2002 Es Bee Ex wrote: On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:38:00 -0700 (PDT) Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once this is fully working then we move on to library separation. In here we also have the bbtools rewrite -- pager, keys, etc. Do you have an outline of blackboxlib or