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Al - 01 May 2006 09:16 GMT

Is it possible to implement system wide hooking in Java. I need to
catch keyboard/mouse events.

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Roedy Green - 01 May 2006 20:42 GMT

>Is it possible to implement system wide hooking in Java. I need to
>catch keyboard/mouse events.

understanding events in general will help you place your hooks. See
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/event11.html

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Al - 02 May 2006 09:51 GMT

"Understanding questions in general will help you" to answer them :)

I'm asking about system wide hooking, i.e., hooking the events from
other application.

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Bart Cremers - 02 May 2006 10:11 GMT

What's the system? Windows, Linux, MacOs, ...? As Java is a platform
independent language and you're asking a platform dependent question
you might guess the answer.

But, if you want to create platform dependent code you can always fall
back on JNI to implement the hook you want and provide your own event
mechanism to publish this to your Java code. There might even be some
code out there doing exactly this, but you'll need google for that.

Bart

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Thomas Weidenfeller - 02 May 2006 10:30 GMT

> "Understanding questions in general will help you" to answer them :)

Writing smart questions will support the goal even more.

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The comp.lang.java.gui FAQ:
ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/computer-lang/java/gui/faq
http://www.uni-giessen.de/faq/archiv/computer-lang.java.gui.faq/

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