[Xpert]Sending keys to the active application?

[Bjoern Paschen]

Hi ...

I wanna write a program which distributes keys to the focused
application...

Sadly it doesn't seem to work.
What am i doing wrong?
Maybe someone here has a hint for me.
Ill attach my code to this mail...

thanks
bj0ern

#include <X11/Intrinsic.h>
#include <X11/StringDefs.h>
#include <X11/Shell.h>
#include <X11/Xaw/Form.h>
#include <X11/Xaw/Command.h>
#include <X11/extensions/XTest.h>
#include <X11/keysymdef.h>

#include <iostream>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <cstdlib>

// Application context
XtAppContext app_context;

// Display structure
Display * disp;

// Structures which holds information about the pressed key
XKeyEvent keyp;

int
main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
        Widget toplevel;

        toplevel = XtOpenApplication(&app_context, "IrClient",
                        NULL, 0, &argc, argv, NULL,
                        applicationShellWidgetClass, 
                        NULL, 0);

        disp = XtDisplay(toplevel);
        
        char ** extension_list;
        int num_ext;

#if 0
        extension_list = XListExtensions(disp, &num_ext);

        cout << "Available Extensions:" << endl;
        
        for(; num_ext > 0; --num_ext)
        {
                cout << "\t- " << extension_list[num_ext - 1] << endl;
        }
#endif
        
        Window * win;
        int i;
    
        int key_code;

        while(1)
        {
                key_code = XKeysymToKeycode(disp, 0xFF54);
#if 1
                Status stat;
                
                keyp.display     = disp;
                // XGetInputFocus(disp, win, &i);
                //keyp.window      = *win;
                keyp.window      = PointerWindow;
                keyp.root        = DefaultRootWindow(disp);
                keyp.subwindow   = None;
                keyp.time        = CurrentTime;
                keyp.same_screen = True;
                keyp.type        = KeyPress;
                keyp.keycode     = key_code;

                stat = XSendEvent(keyp.display, keyp.window, TRUE, 
                                    KeyPressMask, (XEvent *)&keyp);
                
                if( ! stat)        
                {
                        cout << "Keypress event failed!" << endl;
                }
            
                keyp.display     = disp;
                // XGetInputFocus(disp, win, &i);
                // keyp.window      = *win;
                keyp.window      = PointerWindow;
                keyp.root        = DefaultRootWindow(disp);
                keyp.subwindow   = None;
                keyp.time        = CurrentTime;
                keyp.same_screen = True;
                keyp.type        = KeyRelease;
                keyp.keycode     = key_code;

                stat = XSendEvent(keyp.display, keyp.window, TRUE, 
                                    KeyReleaseMask, (XEvent *)&keyp);

                if( ! stat)
                {
                        cout << "Keyrelease event failed!" << endl;
                }
#else
                XTestFakeKeyEvent(disp, key_code, True, 0);
                // cout << "Send press" << endl;

                usleep(100);
                XTestFakeKeyEvent(disp, key_code, False, 0);
                // cout << "Send release" << endl;
#endif

                sleep(1);
        }
}