[Kdenlive-devel] updates

[Rolf Dubitzky]

On Sunday 12 January 2003 05:05 pm, Jason Wood wrote:
> On Sunday 12 Jan 2003 12:44 pm, Rolf Dubitzky wrote:
> >  And also as a goody, if you use the (long discussed) mouse
> >   wheel in the video window, you can step back and forth. That
> >   kdenlive actually updates the slider position is a nice surprise ;-)
>
> Works very nicely :-)

good ;-)

> I have been wondering for a while though on what to do with mouse events,
> drag'n'drop requests, (and mouse wheel events) that occur over the video
> window. I really don't think it is piave's place to handle them, since that
> breaks the UI/render seperation that we have so far kept.

Sure, I was just trying to catch VIDEOEXPOSE events to refresh the video 
window and found out that I could also catch mouse events. keyboard events 
are not passed through...

> I am going to look into how X handles various events - I assume that it is
> fairly easy to tell X to pass them directly to the parent window, so that
> kdenlive can handle them without using VEML, which I don't consider to be a
> very elegant solution for mouse events.

ok.

> What I am saying is that for the moment, the mouse wheel support is fine,
> but when I figure out the best way to do it, all mouse/drag events should
> be dropped directly to kdenlive, which knows how to handle them much more
> generally - think for instance, arranging a picture-on-picture effect by
> dragging around the picture around in the movie window.

sure. 

Cheers,
Rolf

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