Re: receiving global keyDown events
Re: receiving global keyDown events
- Subject: Re: receiving global keyDown events
- From: Ryan Poling <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:24:34 -0700
Okay, you've convinced me - I'll give Apple's built in system another
chance.
Thanks..
-Ryan
On Jun 29, 2005, at 9:55 AM, Daniel Jalkut wrote:
Definitely keep your ears open for better suggestions, but I would
assume that for something like this in general you'd need to write
something like a kernel extension (or perhaps a replacement
keyboard device driver). Sorry to break the bad news :)
It is probably worth looking into whether there's anyway to get
Apple's key clicking to work without slow keys. For what it's
worth, I type pretty fast and as a test right now I'm running with
Slow Keys on and key clicks, but with the acceptance delay all the
way to short. It's only missing a stroke rarely, and this is at
consistently 100WPM+ speed. It would probably be acceptable for
most users' typing speeds, and maybe the delay can be configured
even shorter programatically?
Good luck,
Daniel
On Jun 29, 2005, at 9:37 AM, Ryan Poling wrote:
Thanks guys, but I don't think that will work. I want to know
when *any* key on the keyboard is pressed - I don't care what the
keys are, I just need the timing. The purpose of this if you're
curious is to have the program make a key click sound when keys
are pressed. OS X has something like this built in, but you can
only turn it on when "slow keys" are enabled under the Universal
Access system preference pane. I want click sounds all the time
but without slow keys.
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
-Ryan
On Jun 28, 2005, at 4:27 PM, Daniel Jalkut wrote:
Register for the specific keystrokes you are interested in with
RegisterEventHotKey. Search the archives for that function name
for more information.
Daniel
On Jun 29, 2005, at 2:05 AM, Nathan Day wrote:
What you want is Hot Keys, you can get this through carbon or
there are at least two wrapper classes including the one on my
web site.
On 29/06/2005, at 3:07 AM, Ryan Poling wrote:
I'm trying to write a little Cocoa app which will be able to see
all keyDown events - even when it's not in the foreground. I've
been playing around with first creating a global floating
window, and although I've managed to do this, I only receive
keyDown events when my window is in the front.
Nathan Day
email@hidden
http://homepage.mac.com/nathan_day/
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