From kde-core-devel  Wed Nov 20 23:24:33 2002
From: Charles Samuels <charles () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:24:33 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: QXEmbed grabbing mouse
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=103783476411649


I see.

But why is it necessary to have a mouse grab, specifically, can't you set and
release focus without a grab?

(P.S., I worked around it by doing an X ungrab call in the mouse click
handler)

On Wednesday 20 November 2002 02:46 pm, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't have write access on kde-core-devel but I added the mouse grabbing
> stuff. It was added so that QXEmbed is notified that there was a mouse
> click on the embedded application and set the focus accordantly.
> Before the patch, the host app was unaware of this. It resulted in khtml
> with a Java applet inside a HTML page, both having a text box, that both
> text boxes had blinking cursors. It was then impossible to type text in
> the Java text box.
> I did test it with other apps using QXEmbed like kicker and
> nspluginviewer. Didn't find any problems. Patch was also discussed on
> kfm-devel.
> I don't have a workaround for you, but now the QXEmbed widget is aware of
> mouse clicks of the embedded app which it didn't have before. (Maybe
> override QXEmbed::x11Event(..) and check ButtonPress/ButtonRelease?)
>
> Regards,
>
> Koos Vriezen