I'm trying to write an application using gtkmm, and I want it to hide the mouse cursor when it has focus. So the first step I tried is I hide mouse cursor when the cursor is on top of my window, which is successful. But to prevent the mouse from showing when it is moved outside of my window, I then restrict the mouse movement by constantly warp the mouse cursor back to the center of my drawing area.
To do this I need to know the window position and the size of the window, which are easy to get using Gdk::Window::get_position and Gdk::Window::get_size. However, if the window is moved, get_position will not return the updated position and thus my cursor will to frozen at a wrong position!
So what are the alternatives to achieve the effect that I want here?
Just grab the pointer.
//pass all events to window apart LEAVE_NOTIFY_MASK MainWindow->set_events(GDK_EXPOSURE_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_MOTION_MASK | GDK_BUTTON1_MOTION_MASK | GDK_BUTTON2_MOTION_MASK | GDK_BUTTON3_MOTION_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK | GDK_KEY_PRESS_MASK | GDK_KEY_RELEASE_MASK | GDK_ENTER_NOTIFY_MASK | GDK_FOCUS_CHANGE_MASK | GDK_STRUCTURE_MASK | GDK_PROPERTY_CHANGE_MASK | GDK_VISIBILITY_NOTIFY_MASK | GDK_PROXIMITY_IN_MASK | GDK_PROXIMITY_OUT_MASK | GDK_SUBSTRUCTURE_MASK | GDK_SCROLL_MASK | GDK_TOUCH_MASK | GDK_SMOOTH_SCROLL_MASK | GDK_TOUCHPAD_GESTURE_MASK); MainWindow->set_modal(true); auto display = MainWindow->get_display(); auto window = MainWindow->get_window(); auto grabSuccess = display->get_default_seat()->grab(window, Gdk::SEAT_CAPABILITY_ALL, true); if(grabSuccess != Gdk::GRAB_SUCCESS) { std::clog<<"grab failed: "<<grabSuccess<<std::endl; }
