On Wed, 29 Apr 2015, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi > > I'm planning to write an application in Gambas to support a study of the > efficiency of various user interface designs. To do that I will need to > monitor mouse clicks in conjunction with the mouse position, and keyboard > inputs. This is, of course, simple within a Gambas application but what about > when another application has focus? > > Is there any way to have a Gambas application running minimised but > monitoring the keyboard buffer and mouse events regardless of which > application has focus? >
I don't think there is something built-in for this. You can look at how keyloggers monitor the keyboard. Maybe something similar exists for the mouse. Needless to say that your application will have to run with root privileges. Regards, Tobi -- "There's an old saying: Don't change anything... ever!" -- Mr. Monk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
