Capture Keystrokes & MouseMovements without being in focus?

[Mike Bonner]

Cool, yep.  For that purpose it should work great.

Its interesting when using this method for a game.. One can be typing code
into the script editor, and the game does interesting things because its
still looping.  Not that I have ever inadvertently done such a thing...

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 10:53 PM Tom Glod via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike, actually the main problem I was facing is getting a hotkey press
> detected when another stack is in focus ....I think this function will
> allow me to do that.
>
> The keystroke counter was  something i wanted to do but can live without.
> Thanks, I will try this tomorrow ...i don't see why it wouldn't work for
> what I need.
>
> there is always an answer i guess. this community rocks.
>
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 12:23 AM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > The only way I know of is to start a relatively fast send loop and check
> > the keysdown().  For some things it works fine but for most other things
> > its not a good answer since you can see if a key is down, but not how
> long
> > its down, or tell if it has been pressed, then pressed again before the
> > next loop cycle. All you can do is see that the key IS down.
> >
> > If you wanted to say.. Have a loop processing something in the
> background,
> > you could have it check the keysdown for <whatever keys you want here>
> and
> > if they're present, use revspeak to say how far along the process is.  If
> > you want to do a real, accurate logging of keys though, I'd say its a no
> > go.
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 9:43 PM Tom Glod via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > Is it possible to still trigger the rawKey message or the mousemove
> > > message? when the LC stack is not in focus?
> > >
> > > I know can can sort of create my own mousemove message by tracking the
> > > absolute (or is it relative) location of the mouse
> > >
> > > but the rawkey up message seems like a no go for any kind of workaround
> > >
> > > is there something i don't know about?
> > >
> > > on rawup
> > >
> > > I want to add 1 to MyStats["Keystrokes"]
> > >
> > > end rawup
> > >
> > > I'm afraid the answer is no....so unless by some miracle ...
> > >
> > > Thank you.
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