On Monday 14 September 2009, Lee McPherson wrote: > > Benoît Minisini wrote: > >> I'm trying to get an application-wide mouse down event to register. I > >> found that when I do a Form_mousedown() it only triggers when you click > >> on an empty part of the form, not when you're clicking on any type of > >> control. I'm looking for something that will trigger whenever you hit > >> the mouse button. (My app is going to be full screen, so I don't care > >> if it works outside of the app window or not.) > >> > >> During my searching of the list archives, I found someone tried to use > >> Application_Keypress() as a way to get a key press while the app is > >> running. Well, I tried it and it doesn't work, nothing happens: > >> > >> Static Public Sub Application_Keypress() > >> Message.Info(Key.code) > >> End > >> > >> I tried it on Gambas 2.8 and I even compiled Gambas 3.0 r2329 and that > >> didn't change anything. I am using GTK only (Ubuntu). Any ideas? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Lee > >> > >> > > > > There is no global pointer event handler, only Application_KeyPress(). But > > apparently it does not work with gb.gtk... Can you try with gb.qt to see if > > at > > least Application_KeyPress() is called? Note that this function must be > > defined in the startup class! > > > Switching to gb.qt in gambas 3 works. Haven't tried it in 2.8 yet, but > I don't want to use qt in any case. Since there's no global pointer > event handler yet, it does not matter if you fix applicaiton_keypress > for gtk (for me at least). > > I would suggest a global pointer event handler as a feature if you have > the time. The reason I wanted to use it was for a feedback response > when using a touchscreen. Since there will be no pointer on the screen > (and no vibrate function like on a mobile phone), I wanted to create a > graphical response to touching (clicking) the screen with your finger (a > pointer). > > I suppose the only workaround to this is to create a procedure and call > the procedure for a mouse_down or mouse_up event for every control on > the form. > > Let me say that despite some of the drawbacks, this is the easiest and > most useful tool I've ever used to do programming. Keep up the good > work! When I get better at this I hope to contribute more myself. > > -Lee >
take a look for 'xev', is a util in the x11 package. Best regards, Ron_1st -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user