Can anybody show me how to integrate the gtk suite into a new program?

kline · 08-14-2011, 06:13 PM

A friend's python program uses the gtk stuff to make a very soft click when the user selects either the right or left mouse button. I know enough python to understand part of what is going on. Can anybody show me how to code a function in C that uses the gtk sound/click stuff so that every time I hit and release a key the click sounds?

thanks in advance.

ta0kira · 08-14-2011, 06:29 PM

Do you have a GUI written in GTK+ already?
Do you know C?
Do you know what parts of the python code are using bindings for GTK+?

Kevin Barry

kline · 08-14-2011, 07:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ta0kira

Do you have a GUI written in GTK+ already?
Do you know C?
Do you know what parts of the python code are using bindings for GTK+?

Kevin Barry

Fewer than 30 lines of my friend's 2500 lines are involved with the button/click handling.

My only use for a graphic would be to include that clicking was either on or off. His program lets the user click all three buttons as well as some miscellany with the lowest keys. No key-clicks on any of the keys; otherwise, my post wouldn't have been necessary.

Basically, I am trying to figure out how much of gtk I need to pull in.

ta0kira · 08-14-2011, 08:06 PM

It's still unclear the scope of the requirement. Is this for an existing C program? If so, does it have a GUI? What does the program do? Do you need GTK+ because it's currently the only library you know of to do this with, or is it for a GUI-related reason?

The simple answer is to figure out what GTK+ bindings are used in the python code, find the corresponding C functions in the GTK+ manual, intuit how they go together in C, and change the event being handled from "mouse click" to "key press". This obviously isn't very helpful, but I'm not sure the context of the task.
Kevin Barry

kline · 08-15-2011, 12:02 PM

Thanks for your tip. My only non-work-related GUI hacking used an old library--Xaw[?], and before that Xlib. What I want to do is combine my existing daemon with the gnome toolkit to make every pressed key click. This would help the severely deficient keyboards like the Asus-EEE laptops that have hard to kit keys as well as low-end keyboards. And people who are physically disabled and who watch the keyboard and not the display. A click would confirm that I've hit the key.

I just got a new printer working and have the python code that my friend wrote. Now I can see what he did (with the mouse buttons) and translate that into key presses.

Sergei Steshenko · 08-15-2011, 12:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kline

Thanks for your tip. My only non-work-related GUI hacking used an old library--Xaw[?], and before that Xlib. What I want to do is combine my existing daemon with the gnome toolkit to make every pressed key click. This would help the severely deficient keyboards like the Asus-EEE laptops that have hard to kit keys as well as low-end keyboards. And people who are physically disabled and who watch the keyboard and not the display. A click would confirm that I've hit the key.

I just got a new printer working and have the python code that my friend wrote. Now I can see what he did (with the mouse buttons) and translate that into key presses.

Maybe search the web for

gtk+ tutorial
.