From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2003-08-31T05:03:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Simulating a key press in FXRuby

Steve wrote:

> I have some event-handling code I'd like to test (e.g.
> widget.connect...) that's activated upon SEL_KEYRELEASE.  I've been
> trying to google around and figure out how the FXWindow.handle method
> works...its purpose is obvious but I can't find the right combination
> of constants to put in a MKUINT call to form the right unsigned int to
> send in as the selector Fixnum.

The first argument to MKUINT is the message identifier part (e.g. 
ID_xxx) and the second number is the message type (e.g. SEL_KEYRELEASE):

     widget.handle(sender, MKUINT(ID_FOO, SEL_KEYRELEASE), evt)

> In addition, I noticed that I can't instantiate an FXEvent.  How do I
> create an FXEvent object - is there a factory method somewhere that I
> should use?

Ugh, well, no. Under normal circumstances you don't instantiate FXEvent 
objects; the application does, and passes them on down the line. But I 
understand why that would be useful for unit testing. I will make a note 
to add this for the next release.