On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:17:07 +0300 Nir Tzachar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> hi. > > i was thinking on the lines of building an e module similar to the mouse > gestures plugin for firefox. it would be real cool to execute commands > using mouse gestures in e. > > many codebases for mouse gesture recognition are available. > there is even a general purpose implementation of a stroke engine for > X > (http://www.xstroke.org/) which can send key events and execute > commands. however, it does not integrate nicely with a window > manager.... > i think that implementing it in e would be neat ;) > > the base mechanism needed is getting global mouse events from ecore, and > then feed them to an existing gesture engine. a sane way to coordinate > the mouse gesture with regular mouse use should also be devised. > > any thoughts?? x doesnt work like this. basically when the mouse enters an application window contents (leaves the window border) the wm styops getting mouse events - unless the mouse was grabbed (menu operation etc.) and in that case the app will never get mouse events - so basically you can't do this sanely unless you have some button, key combo etc. that puts the wm in "grab the mouse" mode for a short while waitign for some gesture and thus apps get no events. i am not sure thats useful at all. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
