I already check for these events, but they never occur. I think it might be that some other app inserts itself again before my (active, not listen only) tap?
The event tap specifically taps system events for the media keys previous/playpause/next. I guess the new iTunes version probably "reconquers" the event tap? Regards, Erik On 30.09.2010, at 11:01, Bill Cheeseman wrote: > > On Sep 29, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Erik Aigner wrote: > >> When I create an event tap with CGEventTapCreate(..) and add it to the >> runloop everything works as expected. >> However, after some time (I don't know what triggers this) the event tap >> doesn't receive events anymore, until >> I manually call CGEventTapEnable(..) again. >> >> Any clues what could cause this? Are there any notifications for status >> changes that i should know about? > > > The documentation explains that the system automatically shuts down event > taps if events come so quickly that they begin to slow the system down. When > this happens, the last event you receive will be a kCGEventTapDisabled > event. Test every event's event type to see whether it is a > kCGEventTapDisabledByTimeout event (as opposed to a kCGEventTapDisabledByUser > event, or a real event). If so, immediately re-enable the event tap, if > that's what you want to do. (And don't pass this event on to other routines > or act on it the way you would act on a real event.) > > The documentation is the "Quartz Event Services Reference." > > -- > > Bill Cheeseman - b...@cheeseman.name > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/office%40chocomoko.com > > This email sent to off...@chocomoko.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
