Capturing mouse and keyboard events

BigJoe has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

The node "Capturing Keystrokes" reminded me of a project I have sitting on my desk (under piles of paper). I need to create a utility to capture mouse and keyboard movements to create a "Script" for an application called Xautomation. This tool automates testing of GUI Applications.

I have researched doing this in C but I still haven't found a solid way of doing this. I was working with some Xfree86 internals attempting to get something but without much success. My goal is to be able to run this "Macro recording" application that will create a window allowing management of the macros. Does any one know of a tool set that will allow me to log the different events happening on the GUI even though my gui isn't covering the screen? I have read that you can only read the event info if it is in your "window." I also want the events to pass through to the expected window and not be lost in my application. Does any one know if this can even be done? Thanks

--BigJoe

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Young PerlMonk, craves Not these things.
Use the source Luke.

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Re: Capturing mouse and keyboard events by JaWi (Hermit) on Oct 10, 2002 at 16:09 UTC
You might want to take a look at XMacro. It has most of your described functionality already, though not in Perl. Well, can't have everything ;-) Cheerio, -- JaWi "A chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs."	[reply]
Re: Re: Capturing mouse and keyboard events by BigJoe (Curate) on Oct 10, 2002 at 17:30 UTC
Cool. Maybe I can take this and make polish it up. Maybe through a GUI on it. --BigJoe Learn patience, you must. Young PerlMonk, craves Not these things. Use the source Luke.	[reply]