[Pythonmac-SIG] Keystroke/mouse events

[Jack Jansen]

On 27 Nov 2004, at 22:05, Edward Majcher wrote:

> I need to intercept keystrokes and mouse events at the system level, 
> basically like a keystroke logger, not being familiar enough with the 
> apple frameworks, can anyone point me in the right direction as far as 
> a python package?  I thought maybe  "Events" in the Carbon package but 
> from reading the apple api documentation this leads me to believe this 
> will only work for events in the current application, vs system wide.

I don't know of any API that allows you to do this. But it could well 
be that there's something (maybe deep down in the accessibility 
stuff?), you should ask on a generic MacOSX developer list. Then once 
you've found the API you want we should be able to tell you whether 
it's available from Python.
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