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Re: Special keystrokes recording
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Re: Special keystrokes recording


  • Subject: Re: Special keystrokes recording
  • From: JuL <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 02:00:40 +0100

Le 10 janv. 04, ` 01:50, Shawn Erickson a icrit :


On Jan 9, 2004, at 4:02 PM, JuL wrote:

Hello,

For making a vnc-like app, I would like to record all keystrokes. To do this, I created a window and implemented the sendEvent: method. Everything works fine, except for very special keystrokes like command-tab or command-alt-esc.
I have conducted some research and found out that these keystrokes are reserved by the system using private functions such as CPSRegisterForKey, etc..
So, as you may have guessed, my problem is to find a solution to get these special key events. I have read that you have to kill the Dock and quickly register the key combo with the private function, but that is not a good solution and this only works for cmd-tab.
In a lot of games, the cmd-tab does not work and they surely do not kill the dock. So, surely there must be a good way to do that.

Thanks for your help !

Not sure how VNC like you are going for but it would be best to go down to the Quartz level for an application like this. Quartz Services provides the "Remote Operation" API for this purpose.

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/GraphicsImaging/Reference/ Quartz_Services_Ref/qsref_main/function_group_10.html>
Thanks for answering.
However, my problem in not controlling the 'slave' computer, but getting events from the 'master'. I'm using this "Remote Operation" API for controlling, but there's no functions to get events, only post. :-/
Regards,
JuL
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