From: Erik Veenstra <pan@...>
Date: 2005-07-30T06:06:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Simulating Mouse Dragging

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:21:04 +0000, Kero wrote:

> > Is it possible to simulate a mouse drag event in a browser
> > (or any program in general) with Ruby? Something like:
> >
> >  dragmouse(x1, y1, x2, y2)
> >
> > or
> >
> >  dragmouse("windowname", x1, y1, x2, y2)
> >
> > Either Windows or Linux (Xfree86).
>
> Could recording + analyzing mouse data help? Then you can
> simulate it and let X11 consume it. `gpm -R` may help.

"Recording" the mouse data by reading /dev/gpmdata actually
works. Good start. Generating such a data stream is possible.
But what do we have to do to let X11 "consume" that stream?
"cat test > /dev/gpmdata" doesn't work...

gegroet,
Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/