[Kde-bindings] Ruby, sendEvent and KDE

[Stefan Champailler]

Dear All,

I'm now facing a problem with sendEvent. The deal is this : I have a 
KDE::HTMLPart in a KDE::MainWindow that I use as a web browser. I'd 
like to simulate a mouse cursor move over on particular place on the 
view of the browser and a mouse click there. For example, open the 
www.kde.org and click on the "announcement" link.

I've written a piece of code that so far can display the browser and 
move the mouse cursor on the link I want :

        p = Qt::Point.new(30,30)
        p_global = self.mapToGlobal(p)
        Qt::Cursor.setPos( p_global)
        KDE::Application::kApplication.processEvents()

The next thing I want to do is the "click". So I do :

        current_widget = 
KDE::Application::kApplication.widgetAt( p_global)
        mouseEvent( current_widget, Qt::Event::MouseButtonPress, p, 
p_global, Qt::RightButton, 0)
        mouseEvent( current_widget, Qt::Event::MouseButtonRelease, p, 
p_global, Qt::RightButton, 0)


with 

    def mouseEvent( target, type, pos, global_pos,button, state) 
        res = Qt::Application::sendEvent( target,
            Qt::MouseEvent.new( type, target.rect().center(), button, 
state))    
        puts "Cant send event to target" if !res
    end


problem is the sendEvent always returns false and the click never 
occurs.

If I add an event filter I can see that the events I'm sending 
arrives to the widget. 

I've been coding ruby/qt/korundum for 2 days so far so I'm quite 
newbie... I'va also checked Qt Test Lib from TrollTech but I think I 
do things like them. The big difference is that to simplify my code 
(i.e. no good reason :)), all this code is part of the MainWindow 
object :

class MainWindow < KDE::MainWindow

which I use like this :

a = KDE::Application.new()
window = MainWindow.new( "Tutorial - p4", a )
window.resize( 1200, 800 )
a.setTopWidget( window)
window.show
a.exec 


help would be much appreciated !

Stefan