Hi, I'm attempting to use xlib to simulate a series of mouse clicks in an application (gedit). I found some posts that describe how to do this and it essentially works. I can do left clicks on buttons and so on. But if I generate a click on the menu bar, a menu opens and something breaks and no further ButtonPress/ButtonRelease events that I send will be processed by the application.
When debugging it with xtrace I noticed that my events look slightly different than real left click events. Real: ButtonPress(4) [1]button=left button(0x01) [4]time=0x03752355 [8]root=0x00000102 [12]event=0x010000a3 [16]child=None(0x00000000) [20]root-x=428 [22]root-y=33 [24]event-x=295 [26]event-y=10 state=0 [30]same-screen=true(0x01) My simulated event: SendEvent [1]propagate=true(0x01) [4]destination=PointerWindow(0x00000000) event-mask=ButtonPress ButtonPress(4) [1]button=left button(0x01) [4]time=0x00000000 [8]root=0x00000102 [12]event=0x012000a3 [16]child=None(0x00000000) [20]root-x=407 [22]root-y=40 [24]event-x=274 [26]event-y=19 state=0 [30]same-screen=true(0x01) The field "event" of the real event says 0x010000a3 mine is 0x012000a3. What is this "event" field about? It is not part of the ButtonPress struct. This is the code that I use to simulate a left click: --------------------------------------------------- XEvent event; memset(&event, 0, sizeof(XEvent)); XWindowAttributes attr; XGetWindowAttributes(dpy, windowId, &attr); event.type = ButtonPress; event.xbutton.same_screen = TRUE; event.xbutton.root = root; event.xbutton.window = windowId; event.xbutton.subwindow = None; event.xbutton.x = x; event.xbutton.y = y; event.xbutton.x_root = attr.x + x; event.xbutton.y_root = attr.y + y; event.xbutton.state = 0; event.xbutton.button = Button1; XSendEvent(dpy, PointerWindow, True, ButtonPressMask, &event); XFlush(dpy); // the same for ButtonRelease, with modified state and mask -------------------------------------------------- Thanks in advance. Markus _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
