Re: [Xnee-devel] [slightly off-topic] preventing a client from receiving an event

[Henrik Sandklef]

Hi again ....

XSendEvent sets a flag in the event sent to the app. Some applications
(e.g xterm by default (I think)) looks for this flag to see if it "being
faked", so if you have some strange behaviuor (or no behaviuor at all)
when using XSendEvent, this may be the problem!


/hesa

> Hello Henrik,
>
> thanks for the tip, I will try to use that (after reading the man page...)
>
> if it works out, then I'll try to use XSendEvent() to let the application
> receive all the "nice" keys
>
> I'll keep you posted (if you don't mind, that is)
>
> have a great week,
> daniel
>
> Em Segunda, 17 de Maio de 2004 09:20, Henrik Sandklef escreveu:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I do not have time to look at this right now, but a short answer will
>> perhaps help you a little.
>>
>> With RECORD extension you get copies of the protocol data. You cannot
>> 'steal' them from the X server. What you can do is (I think) grab the
>> keyboard (passive grab but perhaps even active grab) and check the
>> events from there. ????
>>
>> On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 20:58, Daniel Jácome Costa wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > My name is Daniel Costa, I live in Lisbon, Portugal, and since I
>> readed
>> > the article about Xnee in issue 117 of Linux Journal, I've been
>> happily
>> > using Xnee for automating a number of tasks, and I think it's a great
>> > application and very useful, so let me start by thanking all the
>> > developers for writing it.
>> >
>> > Expressing my appreciation is not the only reason I'm posting to the
>> > list, although it certainly should be motive enough :-)
>> > I need some help from you experienced X developers to point me in the
>> > right direction
>> >
>> > Let me explain:
>> > although where I work we are running mostly linux now, I have an old
>> > legacy accounting/inventory MSDOS (horrors) application that I need to
>> > support, and so far have been able to, using dosemu the app runs
>> great,
>> > and everybody is happy
>> >
>> > or should I say, almost happy, because as it happens, the DOS app is
>> > buggy, and there is a certain sequence of keystrokes that causes it to
>> > crash (that I was able to determine thanks to xnee)
>> >
>> > now what I am trying to do is this:
>> > write a program that monitors the keyboard events sent to the dosemu
>> > window, and prevents the deadly key sequence from reaching it
>> >
>> > I have some experience in X programming, mainly Tcl/Tk, Perl/Tk, C/gtk
>> > and lately C++/Qt, but have never done something as low-level (Xlib
>> > frightens me), and so I am a bit clueless as how to begin
>> >
>> > I ask you: can this be done with slight modifications to xnee?
>> > that is plan A, and I've started reading the code, but I haven't seen
>> > anything in the RECORD extension that allows me to snatch events from
>> the
>> > queue, preventing them from reaching the client
>> >
>> > plan B is to read the code from some window manager (fvwm, kwm, etc)
>> to
>> > learn how do they do it
>> >
>> > well, there you have it, any suggestion is very welcome
>> >
>> > thanks in advance,
>> > best regards,
>> > daniel
>
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