-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 08:27 +1100, Justin Clift wrote: > [...] >> Unsure if it gives keyboard events for the whole window system or not, >> but I'll play with it and find out! > > Heh no it wont, David pointed out one way of getting at "all" keyboard > events - basically you need permission from the X server - as a GUI > application - its not in your rights to recieve all keyboard events, > you only get keyboard events when a window in your application has > keyboard focus, this is not a limitation of GTK+ but a limitation > of the X server (the server just wont send the events to the client).
Hmmmm, not sure about that. If I open a new connection to any X display, using Xlib rather than GTK, I can do a request and receive all the keyboard events that are processed through that display. This is the code for xkey, a very simple X keyboard sniffer Google turned up last weekend while trying to figure out how to get around this problem: http://wiki.hping.org/135 That's able to receive key events... again except for when a gtk menu is open. (ugh) So, the above example is providing me hope that there may be some workaround somewhere that's usable, rather than chucking away 6 months of coding and writing off any hope of ever having decent learning materials for GTK based apps. ;-> Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > Cheers, > -Tristan - -- The Flame Project - Open Source GUI for animated SVG & Flash http://www.flameproject.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF2238FAuZn5lS2IMRApSpAJ9uPvkNGX59nGIVA2w4zMKKWcSZ2wCfYpwd l+sFG6nj3Dghl2mJ+3HNQQE= =VHAr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
