Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add input-send-event command

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 05:54:35AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/17/2014 03:02 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > On Mo, 2014-06-16 at 20:15 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >> Which allows specification of absolute/relative, 
> >> up/down and console parameters.
> > 
> > Looks good overall, only minor nits.  Will wait for acks from qmp guys
> > before picking into input branch.
> > 
> >> Suggested by Gerd Hoffman.
> > 
> > Huh?  Signed-off missing ...
> > 
> >> +Press left mouse button.
> >> +
> >> +-> { "execute": "input-send-event",
> >> +    "arguments": { "console": 0,
> >> +                   "events": [ { "type": "btn",
> >> +                    "data" : { "down": true, "button": "Left" } },
> >> +                    { "type": "btn",
> >> +                      "data" : { "down": false, "button": "Left" } } ] } }
> >> +<- { "return": {} }
> > 
> > Bad example.  Down + up should go as separate commands (so you have a
> > sync inbetween), otherwise it might happen that the guest doesn't see
> > the button event at all.
> 
> Would it be worth adding a command to the union of possible events that
> adds a pause?  As in:
> 
> -> { "execute": "input-send-event",
>     "arguments": { "console": 0,
>                    "events": [
>                     { "type": "btn",
>                       "data" : { "down": true, "button": "Left" } },
>                     { "type": "pause", "data": { "duration": 10 } },
>                     { "type": "btn",
>                       "data" : { "down": false, "button": "Left" } } ] } }
> 
> that sticks a 10 ms delay between the other two events?

Would rather have the user wait 10 ms in between QMP commands.