On Friday, 7 February 2014 at 12:32:25 UTC, Paul Freund wrote:
On Friday, 7 February 2014 at 12:17:42 UTC, Chris wrote:
Just out of interest, is there a way of capturing keystrokes
in D? E.g. if you have a CLI application that wants to capture
Ctrl+... and the like, and possibly control the cursor.
You can achieve this by interfacing operating system functions.
If your target is windows you can take a look at my
ScrollLocker project
(https://github.com/PaulFreund/ScrollLocker). It is written in
D and uses SetWindowsHookEx and WH_KEYBOARD_LL (low level
keyboard hook) to capture key strokes (see helper/hooks.d).
There should be similiar facilitys in other OS as well.
It should also be possible to get certain combinations in the
cmd/shell but I don't know how.
Thanks for the link. It's a good starting point. I'm on Linux, so
I'll have a look at the corresponding functions.
