Notification bubles are transparent for mouse clicks - How its done?
A programming question.
I have spent quite a few hours searching notify-osd code, but still it is unclear to me how you archieve that click-through behaviour.
The bubble window does have set few event masks on mouse (in bubble.c). I know it need it to know that mouse is hoovering above it and the bubble should go blurry. But how you pass the mouse events to underlying windows than?
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- Solved
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- Notify OSD Edit question
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- Solved by:
- Jirka Daněk
- Solved:
- 2009-11-14
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- 2009-11-14
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| Jirka Daněk (juraad) said : | #1 |
I think I got It! IMHO its the update_input_shape (window, 1, 1); method, that sets the input shape to 1x1 pixel square in the corner of every bubble. That is why notify-osd has to do mouse polling.
It is a shame QT4 cannot do just that. There is only setMask(), which (optionally) clips mouse, but _always_ clips visibility :(
BTW, I found it in revision 1, much easier to navigate than current sources ;-)
