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From: thor@thor.atd.ucar.edu (Richard Neitzel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Help need for XSendEvent
Message-ID: <10961@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 91 20:56:41 GMT
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Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research, Remote Sensing Facility
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	I am trying to write an application that needs to send text
strings to an xterm. The most obvious method to me is to use
selections and mimic the button2 actions by sending events to the
target xterm. However, the xterm does not respond by getting the
selection. I've tested the events sent with xev, so I am certain that
xterm is getting them - so why isn't it getting the selection. Here's
the effected part of the code:


    XEvent ev;

    ev.type = ButtonPress;
    ev.xbutton.type = ButtonPress;
    ev.xbutton.display = disp;
    ev.xbutton.window = wdw;
    ev.xbutton.root = root;
    ev.xbutton.subwindow = 0;
    ev.xbutton.time = CurrentTime;
    ev.xbutton.x = 10;
    ev.xbutton.y = 50;
    ev.xbutton.x_root = rx;
    ev.xbutton.y_root = ry;
    ev.xbutton.state = 0;
    ev.xbutton.button = Button2;
    ev.xbutton.same_screen = True;

    if (!XSendEvent(disp,wdw,True,ButtonPressMask,&ev))
      cerr << "XSendEvent failed.\n";

    ev.type = ButtonRelease;
    ev.xbutton.type = ButtonRelease;
    ev.xbutton.time = CurrentTime;
    ev.xbutton.state = Button2Mask;

    if (!XSendEvent(disp,wdw,True,ButtonReleaseMask,&ev))
      cerr << "XSendEvent failed.\n";

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