getting x events with a kded module

Simon Hausmann hausmann at kde.org
Sun Jan 12 17:47:16 GMT 2003


On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:50:01AM -0500, Pupeno wrote:
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> On Saturday 11 January 2003 09:09, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 07:07:57PM -0500, Pupeno wrote:
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> > > I'm trying to port kaccess to be a kded module and the main problem is
> > > that I don't know how to get X events in a kded module.
> > > Current kaccess code relies on: QApplication::x11EventFilter ( XEvent * )
> > > but of course, as not being a Q/KApplication, I can't use that function.
> > > What can I do then ?
> >
> > kded makes regular use of KApplication and connects to the X server.
> > Using KApplication's installX11EventFilter API you should be able to
> > catch X11 events easily.
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> Ok, if you say so (I can test it right now), but, how do I run 
> installX11EventFilter without a KApplication object ? or how do I access 
> KDED's KApplication from the KDED module ?

KApplication is a singleton, accessible through the 'kapp' macro
(which expands to KApplication::kApplication()) .

Simon




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