Hello fellow monks,

I asked some specific questions on this item before, but I haven't quite found the answer I needed. I'm sure that my explanation of what I wanted to do is the reason for this.

I'm writing an application which shows a number of images on the screen, and it lets the user browse through these images until he or she finds the correct one, and with some mouse-action (probably leftclick...) this one is selected.

Very simple, but there is one big difficulty: the application is for disabled people who cannot operate a mouse. There is, however, a device that translates certain actions by disabled people into mouse-events. In case of my daughter: she has a 'thing' around her head (I don't know the english translation for the dutch word 'hoofdsteun') connected to this device, and when she moves her head right or left, a (configurable) mouse-event is generated. These two actions are the only actions that can be generated. I can however configure what mouse-event is generated by moving her head left or right. The possibilities are 'left single click', 'right single click', 'left double click', 'right double click', 'left triple click', 'mouse up', 'mouse down', 'mouse left', 'mouse right'.

To operate the PC normally and to start the program, still a mouse is connected, which can accidentally be moved.

I thought using Tk was the simplests option. The problem however is that I defined 'single click left' to select the active image, and 'single click right' to activate the image to the right (browse). But when the mouse is accidentally moved (the whole installation is on a laptop on a wheelchair...it moves...) the mousepointer moves out of the active window, and a single click left or right after that moves the focus outside of the program and the disabled person needs non-disabled to correct this.
I already started the program in maximized size, but still a gnomepanel or windows-startbar is visible (and clickable).

Does anyone have an idea how to solve this? Should I use something else for this? Is it possible to run it fullscreen?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Jouke Visser, Perl 'Adept'

In reply to Mousebehaviour by Jouke

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