X gurus?

[Gerrit Holl]

Mike Sabin wrote:
> I am beginning a small project which I am afraid may
> have to end up being written in C (I say afraid,
> because I will have to LEARN C first, if this is the
> case).  I am programming for the X Windows environment
> on Linux, and need to accomplish the following two
> things:
>
> 1. At a certain time, I need to get the x-y coordinates
> of my mouse pointer, no matter where my pointer is at
> the time (it could be over the window for some other
> application, but I want a function call to return
> the coordinates to my application)
>
> 2. At a certain time, I need to artificially generate
> a button 1 mouse click, whereever the mouse pointer is
> currently located (e.g. over another application's
> window).  My program must do this, without me actually
> having to click on the mouse or hit any key.
>
> Can it be done in python?  I actually don't have much
> hope that it can, but I am often surprised what some
> of you people will come up with around here....

Sjoerd Mullender <Sjoerd.Mullender at cwi.nl> has done that.
Parnassus links to his homepage <http://www.cwi.nl/~sjoerd/>
for an extensive X library in Python, but it's not on his
homepage. It can still be downloaded, however, on:

http://www.cwi.nl/ftp/sjoerd/X-extension.tar.gz
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have fun,
Gerrit.

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