keyboard/mouse emulation and pipelight

Hi,

first of all I would recommend disable embedding (start the browser with the environment variable PIPELIGHT_EMBED=0 set), so that the input events directly go to silverlight and do not need to pass the browser. This also prevents the browser from accidentally getting the focus.

Moreover, I would suggest using a Windows software (in the same wineprefix) to simulate input events so that you only feed these events to the wine event system and do not need to simulate the events using the X server. It would most probably be similar to the setup you are currently using on Windows.

The only advantage you could have when using Pipelight, is that you can enforce the windowslses mode (PIPELIGHT_WINDOWLESSMODE=1). This forces all events to go through Pipelight, so that you drop existing ones or add new ones. This would however require modifications to the Pipelight source code. There is already something similar in the code: We hook the fullscreen window and drop the WM_KILLFOCUS event when the "Stay in fullscreen" option is set which prevents Silverlight from leaving fullscreen when using multiple monitors.

Pipelight can give you a better control over the existing events, but we do not have any API interfaces which gives you direct access to the data. Depending on how much data you need to enter into this database, it may be better to reverse engineer how the Silverlight application work so that you can directly send the data to the background server. You may take a look at the network traffic. Since all web requests go either through Pipelight or Wines wininet implementation, you can also take a look at SSL traffic when you add some debug output at the correct places.

Michael