iLiad non-GTK+ apps not getting button event from X

[ericshliao]

Based on my current experience, all GTK+ apps can respond to iLiad buttons without any problem. But I found that I can't make QT based app (djview4) and wxWidgets based app (xCHM) respond to iLiad button, even though I can control iLiad led flash and use touch-pen as mouse in these apps.

My current understanding is:
Contentlister will grab all iLiad button-events by calling button driver. Then, a button-event will be translated to an X event and transferred to the foreground x-client using the following function in programManager.c:

void pm_SendKey(KeySym keysym)
{
    XKeyEvent xev;
    Display *display;
    Window  window, root;
    int     screen;

    display = gdk_x11_display_get_xdisplay(gdk_display_get_default());
    root = gdk_x11_get_default_root_xwindow();
    window = pm_getWinOnTop();
    if (window == -1)
    {
        CL_ERRORPRINTF("Failed: no valid window found");
        return;
    }

    if (window == g_myWin)
    {
        CL_PMPRINTF("ContentLister window 0x%x", (unsigned int)window);

        display = XOpenDisplay(NULL);
        screen = DefaultScreen(display);
        root = RootWindow(display, screen);
    }

    // create and send a keypress event followed by a keyrelease event 
    xev.type = KeyPress;
    xev.display = display;
    xev.root = root;
    xev.window = window;
    xev.subwindow = None;
    xev.time = pm_fake_timestamp();
    xev.x = 1;
    xev.y = 1;
    xev.x_root = 1;
    xev.y_root = 1;
    xev.same_screen = 1;
    xev.state = 0;
    xev.keycode = XKeysymToKeycode(display, keysym);
//    CL_ERRORPRINTF("Sending keypress....");
    XSendEvent(xev.display, window, 1, KeyPressMask, (XEvent *) & xev);

    // We check to see if this is the UP key
    // so we don't send the release event for that, because it
    // can crash the contentLister with a BadWindow error (req.code 25)
    if ( keysym == GDK_F5 )
    {
        CL_ERRORPRINTF("NOT Sending keyrelease for UP key....");
    }
    else
    {
//        usleep(2000); // MvdW: this usleep doesn't seem to be nescessary
        xev.type = KeyRelease;
        xev.time = pm_fake_timestamp();
        XSendEvent(xev.display, window, 1, KeyReleaseMask, (XEvent *) & xev);
    }

    //XSync(xev.display, 1);
    XSync(xev.display, FALSE);

    if (window == g_myWin)
    {
        CL_PMPRINTF("Before XCloseDisplay()");
        XCloseDisplay(display);
    }
}

I just can't figure out why do these x apps can't respond to iLiad button event. Does anybody have an idea how to solve or trace the problem?

[Max]

As I understand, contentlister use the wmclass/name of the window to find it.

I don't know how to do it in QT based app and wxWidgets based app. Look this for more info:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...hlight=wmclass
http://forum.irexnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=1110

[ericshliao]

Ah, I forgot to try this approach. Thanx for reminding me. I should not forget it.
I remembered that I tried to set it in djview4 but still got no response when pushing page-flip button. Maybe I didn't do it corretly. I will try again.

[Max]

If you are launching the program from a shell script remember that the class and title of the windows should be sh.

[ericshliao]

Originally Posted by Max

If you are launching the program from a shell script remember that the class and title of the windows should be sh.

Yes, I know this. Thanx.
For GTK+ based app, I know how to set WM_CLASS, but for QT app, I don't find any proper funtion to do the task.

[hansel]

Hi,

Just back from holidays...

Originally Posted by ericshliao

I know how to set WM_CLASS, but for QT app, I don't find any proper funtion to do the task.

You can set/get it by calling Xlib functions directly

http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/ICC/cl...ClassHint.html

[ericshliao]

Ha! Thanx. I've never thought of this approach.

[ericshliao]

It's so great! This approach works.
Now LED and buttons on iLiad can be used in QT4 apps.

I borrowed some code from trayicon_x11.cpp and made some modification.

This is the code that I use in djview4 for iLiad:

#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <X11/Xutil.h>
#include <QX11Info>



  Display *dsp = QX11Info::display();
  WId leader   = winId();
  // set the class hint
  XClassHint classhint;
  classhint.res_name  = (char*)"sh";
  classhint.res_class = (char*)"sh";
  XSetClassHint(dsp, leader, &classhint);
  // set the Window Manager hints
  XWMHints *hints;
  hints = XGetWMHints(dsp, leader); // init hints
  hints->flags = WindowGroupHint | IconWindowHint | StateHint; // set the window group hint
  hints->window_group = leader;  // set the window hint
  hints->initial_state = WithdrawnState; // initial state
  //hints->icon_window = icon;  // in WM, this should be winId() of separate widget
  hints->icon_x = 0;
  hints->icon_y = 0;
  
  XSetWMHints(dsp, leader, hints); // set the window hints for WM to use.
  XFree( hints );
  //end setting WM hints