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Re: Special keystrokes recording
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Re: Special keystrokes recording


  • Subject: Re: Special keystrokes recording
  • From: "Louis C. Sacha" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:25:13 -0800

Hello...

You might want to do a search for "kiosk" in the various places to search for info, since that topic covers similar issues to the ones you are facing.

I'm pretty sure there was an official technote about kiosks, as well as some sample code. If you go to http://developer.apple.com and do a search it should pull it up.

Also, blocking special key combinations is likely a frequent topic on the mac-games-dev mailing list, so you might also want to check that list's archive as well.

Hope that helps,

Louis

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 !

Julien
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