QXEmbed grabbing mouse

[Havoc Pennington]

Hi,

Have Matthias and Owen weighed in on this issue? Shouldn't it be
covered in the XEMBED spec if the host app needs to take special
action?

Havoc

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:24:33PM -0800, Charles Samuels wrote:
> 
> I see.
> 
> But why is it necessary to have a mouse grab, specifically, can't you set and
> release focus without a grab?
> 
> (P.S., I worked around it by doing an X ungrab call in the mouse click
> handler)
> 
> On Wednesday 20 November 2002 02:46 pm, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't have write access on kde-core-devel but I added the mouse grabbing
> > stuff. It was added so that QXEmbed is notified that there was a mouse
> > click on the embedded application and set the focus accordantly.
> > Before the patch, the host app was unaware of this. It resulted in khtml
> > with a Java applet inside a HTML page, both having a text box, that both
> > text boxes had blinking cursors. It was then impossible to type text in
> > the Java text box.
> > I did test it with other apps using QXEmbed like kicker and
> > nspluginviewer. Didn't find any problems. Patch was also discussed on
> > kfm-devel.
> > I don't have a workaround for you, but now the QXEmbed widget is aware of
> > mouse clicks of the embedded app which it didn't have before. (Maybe
> > override QXEmbed::x11Event(..) and check ButtonPress/ButtonRelease?)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Koos Vriezen