Capture Keystrokes & MouseMovements without being in focus?

[Tom Glod]

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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