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From: hue@netcom.UUCP (Jonathan Hue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Fake events
Keywords: fake event FrameMaker
Message-ID: <6039@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 90 06:22:02 GMT
References: <1465@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <11873@csli.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <11873@csli.Stanford.EDU> dayglow@csli.stanford.edu (Eric T. Ly) writes:
>In article <1465@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> howcome@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Hakon W Lie) writes:
>>I am trying to port an application from sun/x-windows to NeXT. In X11
>>I can send generate events (like keyclicks, buttonpresses etc.)
>>through XSendEvent. Is something similar possible on the NeXT ?
>
>event record and stuff the fields with the appropriate values.  Then,
>you could just do a [NXApp sendEvent:&theEvent].  Of course, this

If you do this you will soon find that you need to use DPSPostEvent() also.
The problem is that your app will often go into a loop doing DPSGetEvent()
if it gets a mouse-down event on a gadget.  So you end up having to shove
a bunch of mouse-moves and a mouse up into the event queue with DPSPostEvent()
before sending the mouse-down.

>requires that you find the correct Mach port to which to send events
>and that you have send rights to it, none of which seems possible
>without the help of the other application.

"help", as Eric knows, consists of a command line option when starting
the app.  -NXPSName or something like that.

-Jonathan