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From: slewis@cbnewsm.att.com (scott.b.lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Program to send events to arbitrary application?
Keywords: events, messages, X, openwindows
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.192218.8933@cbnewsm.att.com>
Date: 25 Jun 91 19:22:18 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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A (simple?) question for all of you Xperts:

Is there a program out there that will send an arbitrary event 
(e.g. a "fake" mouse button press) to an arbitrary
window?  I would like to send an arbitrary event to
a window from a shell, and have that event processed
by the program as if it had come to that window 
normally.  Preferably, the window and event would be 
parameters to such a program.

This is fairly close to the notion of journalling, so 
perhaps there is a good journalling program out there that
will work?  I've seen the NeWS journalling program, and
it comes close, but does not have quite enough flexibility.

BTW, I'm using OpenWindows 2.0 on a Sun Sparc 1+.

Please respond via email to:  slewis@hound.att.com.

Scott

Please forgive if this is well-known...I looked in the faq...