Fwd: [Bug 34362] mouse button support

[Ralf Nolden]

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On Freitag, 27. Dezember 2002 01:21, Charles Samuels wrote:
> On Thursday 26 December 2002 3:43, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > On Donnerstag, 26. Dezember 2002 18:56, Charles Samuels wrote:
> > > I wrote once an app that would bind it to commands (in my case, dcop
> > > noatun Noatun forward... ;).
> > >
> > > I think it belongs in KAction, i.e., shouldn't be any different than
> > > keyboard shortcuts.  At least it's the most versatile way, as we
> > > already have the infrastructure.
> > >
> > > I'm not volunteering ;)
> >
> > so, does your app volunteer ? .-)
>
> You'll have to ask its agent ;)
>
> It's just a XGrabButton call.

Well, ok. As much as that would work, I guess it would still be better to have 
Trolltech include support for a 5th and 6th button on a mouse in Qt.

Ralf

> Then you take the KApplication::x11Event function to pick it up and WHAM,
> global Events.  I think by binding it to an entire Konqueror window, change
> the RootWindow(..) call to topLevelWindow->handle().
>
>
>     Display *dpy = XOpenDisplay(0);
>
>     XGrabButton(dpy, 5, AnyModifier, RootWindow(dpy, 0), True, ButtonPress,
> GrabModeAsync, GrabModeAsync, None, None);
>     XGrabButton(dpy, 6, AnyModifier, RootWindow(dpy, 0), True, ButtonPress,
> GrabModeAsync, GrabModeAsync, None, None);
>
>     while (1)
>     {
>         XEvent e;
>         XNextEvent(dpy, &e);
>
>         switch (e.xbutton.button)
>         {
>         case 5:
>             {
>                 string command="dcop `dcop | grep noatun` Noatun back";
>                 system(command.c_str());
>                 break;
>             }
>         case 6:
>             {
>                 string command="dcop `dcop | grep noatun` Noatun forward";
>                 system(command.c_str());
>                 break;
>             }
>         }
>     }

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