urgent-need to get the number of left-right-double click

hamedhsn · 01-20-2011, 07:38 AM

hi everybody
can any one tell me how can i get the ocuurance of left click-right click-double click?
i need the time of ocurance and the click(left-right-double) that happend.
any software?
any clue..
i need it in linux environment(kde or gnome)
i appreciate you if you help me.
thanks

SonnySee · 01-20-2011, 08:52 AM

Perhaps the command line utility xev will work for you.

Here is a link to the man page: http://www.unix.com/man-page/All/1/XEV/

Hope this helps.
Cheers

Snark1994 · 01-20-2011, 10:31 AM

It would probably help if you told us what programming language and utilities you're using...

hamedhsn · 01-20-2011, 11:27 PM

thanks SonnySee and Snark1994 for you response.
i went through xev but it can not give what i want. it just creat a window and within that every event captured. i need the clicks for every window running.
in man page it says that "You can also attach it to an existing window" how it can be done??maybe if i can attach it to the active window i am able to catch click event but how it is possible???

since i needed the events happening for each window running, i already went through xlib programming (c language) i achieved what i wanted except this mouse click,right and double click.
so i was loking for another way to do that.

Aquarius_Girl · 01-21-2011, 05:16 AM

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Originally Posted by hamedhsn

can any one tell me how can i get the ocuurance of left click-right click-double click?

Hit out Google with the following keywords:

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interfacing with mouse Linux

Snark1994 · 01-22-2011, 03:45 AM

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XCreateSimpleWindow returns a window id that is unique to this program.

SOURCE:http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/do..._Beginner.html
I don't know what methods you're using, but I'm sure there will be an analogous return value or method to obtain it however you create your windows. You can then run xev with the -id option to attach it to your window.

@Anisha: I tried your search, most of the results seemed to be about curses, except for one which was the man page for the Linux mouse driver. Was there a specific link you were trying to direct the OP to?

Aquarius_Girl · 01-22-2011, 03:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Snark1994

@Anisha: I tried your search, most of the results seemed to be about curses, except for one which was the man page for the Linux mouse driver. Was there a specific link you were trying to direct the OP to?

I wanted to point him to the first link which showed how to interact with the mouse through ncurses. Interacting with mouse means dealing with clicks so there could be a way to count the clicks from left right buttons. If I am wrong in judging the ncurses feel free to correct me.

hamedhsn · 01-22-2011, 02:30 PM

hi
this is simple program regarding your help it seems really good but when i run it nothing happend.what is the problem with it??

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ncurses.h>

#define WIDTH 30
#define HEIGHT 10 

int startx = 0;
int starty = 0;


int main()
{	int c, choice = 0;
	WINDOW *menu_win;
	MEVENT event;

	mousemask(ALL_MOUSE_EVENTS, NULL);
	
	while(1)
	{
			if(getmouse(&event) == OK)
			{	/* When the user clicks left mouse button */
				if(event.bstate & BUTTON1_CLICKED)
					printf("left click\n");

			}
	}		
}

Aquarius_Girl · 01-22-2011, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by hamedhsn

this is simple program regarding your help it seems really good but when i run it nothing happend.what is the problem with it??

I am NOT a ncurses expert, what ever the problem with that program is and whatever errors you facing should be in a new thread in the programming section, then perhaps someone can help you that program.

wje_lq · 01-22-2011, 08:11 PM

If you're using ncurses, you need to read the ncurses man page to see how that needs to be initialized before you use any mcurses capabilities.
In the man page for mousemask(), it warns that under certain conditions, the function will return a particular value which indicates that mousemask() won't do anything for you in your particular operating environment.

So read both man pages, initialize ncurses properly, and check the result returned from mousemask().

Snark1994 · 01-23-2011, 08:14 AM

Also, you can't printf from ncurses - stdout is being screwed around with to show the curses windows, so you can't print. The best I've found is printing to a file (which you could then view with tail -f in another terminal). You also need to call a whole load of functions to initialise curses (namely; "initscr()", "clear()", "noecho()", "cbreak()"). Like Anisha said, if you're having problems with ncurses, ask in another thread. Also, re-reading post #4, you want to capture every click (ie. in all windows), which is something that may not be possible using ncurses. Even with xev you would have to find the IDs of all running windows...

EDIT:
Links... Mouse howto and introduction + compiling instructions

Aquarius_Girl · 01-23-2011, 10:14 AM

Also see if struct termios can be of some use here:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO...ing-HOWTO.html

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you want to capture every click (ie. in all windows), which is something that may not be possible using ncurses.

and I think, hamedhsn, you should first of all confirm the above quote by snark by asking it explicitly in a new thread!

hamedhsn · 01-23-2011, 10:54 AM

thanks anisha and snark

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you want to capture every click (ie. in all windows), which is something that may not be possible using ncurses.

do you have any idea how can i get it,any tools or programming??
unfortunatly, i have not found a way to solve this problem, i just left with it and i dont know what to do??

i was also trying to work with a tools (xmacro) also i had problem in this thread
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...71#post4232571

Aquarius_Girl · 01-23-2011, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by hamedhsn

do you have any idea how can i get it,any tools or programming??

Do you understand what does it mean when I say ask about that quoted remark explicitly in a new thread?

and did you look up on struct termios as mentioned in post 12?

hamedhsn · 01-24-2011, 12:07 AM

i created a thread.

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and did you look up on struct termios as mentioned in post 12

yeah but i did not get anything.plus xmacro also does not work.