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Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 3, Issue 406
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Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 3, Issue 406


  • Subject: Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 3, Issue 406
  • From: Raleigh Ledet <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:42:46 -0800

If you need a Cocoa equivalent of the Carbon EventMonitorTarget please file a bug for it.

Monitor Targeted events only occur when you app is not the foreground. When you app is in the foreground the events come in the normal way.

I have a similar problem with tablet proximity events. I register for the Carbon Event I'm interested in on the MonitorTarget, however, the event never comes through my installed Carbon Handler. Instead the event comes through the normal Cocoa event chain. The same is probably happening for your events as well. Since you app is in the background, I don't know which view would get the event. It may behoove you to override NSApp's sendEvent: to catch the event there. Then reroute or broadcast a notification about the event to the rest of your app.

-raleigh

On Mar 30, 2006, at 10:24 AM, email@hidden wrote:

On Mar 30, 2006, at 12:13 PM, Tom Harrington wrote:

[And in case anyone's wondering, I'm using Carbon here because Cocoa
doesn't appear to have an equivalent to GetEventMonitorTarget().
Using NSEvent doesn't cut it here because it won't receive the events
unless my app is in the foreground, while GetEventMonitorTarget() will
receive the events at all times.]

Unfortunately, this is not the case. From the GetEventMonitorTarget()
docs:
Handlers installed on the event monitor target receive events only
when
the current application is inactive. When the current application is
active, all events flow through the event dispatcher target, and
no events
are sent to the event monitor target.


So you'd need to run it in a separate process if you want it to
capture all events.

--

Mike Blaguszewski / Ambrosia Software, Inc.

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