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Le_Coeur
Le_Coeur

Reputation: 1541

Detect global key events

How can I detect global key events without using addGlobalMonitorForEventsMatchingMask. I need only the notification that a key was pressed, do not need to know which key exactly.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 546

Answers (1)

JWWalker
JWWalker

Reputation: 22707

You could poll CGEventSourceSecondsSinceLastEventType for the time since the last keyboard event. I don't know of any way to be notified of a key event without finding out what key was pressed. A Quartz event tap would have the same security restrictions as addGlobalMonitorForEventsMatchingMask, which I'm guessing is why you want to avoid it.

Upvotes: 1

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