Re: How to get mouse moved events?
Re: How to get mouse moved events?
- Subject: Re: How to get mouse moved events?
- From: Public Look <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 22:33:32 -0500
I am just curious. This forum has seen this exact question go by
several times. In all my long career, I have never wanted to steal
mouse events form other applications or even "monitor" them What are
(seemingly) so many people trying to do when they ask this question ?
What kind of application eavesdrops on other applications ? Are we
talking about automation tools like automated GUI testers ? Are we
talking about simulating focus follows mouse ? Are we talking about
tools to overcome a disability ? What's up ?
On Jan 23, 2004, at 5:17 PM, Brant Sears wrote:
Is there a way to get signaled for mouse moved events when my app is
not in
front? I've tried creating very high level, full screen clear windows.
For
example, at the shielding level, screen saver level, etc. However,
once I
click on the desktop, I stop getting mouse move events. I've tried
overriding methods like resignFirstResponder so that it always returns
NO,
and overriding resignMainWindow, resignKeyWindow so that they doesn't
do
anything (i.e. preventing the built in routines from being called).
Doing
this has had no effect on the behavior of the window with regards to
giving
me the mouse move events.
Do I need to inject my window into some other process (like some system
process?). (If so, any idea how?) Or possible write the window into
some
kind of daemon that gets loaded at login time and then use IPC to
signal my
app when a mouse move happens. Again, if so, how does one go about
doing
that? Or would it be easier to try to get this information through
IOKit?
Any ideas?
Brant Sears
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