I'm trying to parse a CGEvent from myCGEventCallback for keyboard events. I can get access to modifier flags, keycode, UniChar.
So far I managed to get it to work for some combinations like command+shift+f, but I have a couple of problems for some other combinations.
What's the best way to interpret the result? For example, I want to get a result like control+g, option+control+g, or option+shift+f1, and so on. Here is the code for myCGEventCallback. Thanks!
func myCGEventCallback(proxy : CGEventTapProxy, type : CGEventType, event : CGEvent, refcon : UnsafeMutableRawPointer?) -> Unmanaged<CGEvent>? {
if type == .keyDown {
let flags = event.flags
var msg = ""
if flags.contains(.maskAlphaShift) {
msg+="caps+"
}
if flags.contains(.maskShift) {
msg+="shift+"
}
if flags.contains(.maskControl) {
msg+="control+"
}
if flags.contains(.maskAlternate) {
msg+="option+"
}
if flags.contains(.maskCommand) {
msg += "command+"
}
if flags.contains(.maskSecondaryFn) {
msg += "function+"
}
var keyCode = event.getIntegerValueField(.keyboardEventKeycode)
var char = UniChar()
var length = 0
event.keyboardGetUnicodeString(maxStringLength: 1, actualStringLength: &length, unicodeString: &char)
msg+="\(Character(UnicodeScalar(char)!))"
debugPrint(msg)
}
return Unmanaged.passRetained(event)
}
I ended up just converting CGEvent to NSEvent by initializing NSEvent with CGEvent, and get charactersIgnoringModifiers. Non-characters like escape and backspace won't work though. Here's the entire CGEventCallback.
func myCGEventCallback(proxy : CGEventTapProxy, type : CGEventType, event : CGEvent, refcon : UnsafeMutableRawPointer?) -> Unmanaged<CGEvent>? {
if type == .keyDown {
let flags = event.flags
var msg = ""
if flags.contains(.maskAlphaShift) {
msg+="caps+"
}
if flags.contains(.maskShift) {
msg+="shift+"
}
if flags.contains(.maskControl) {
msg+="control+"
}
if flags.contains(.maskAlternate) {
msg+="option+"
}
if flags.contains(.maskCommand) {
msg += "command+"
}
if flags.contains(.maskSecondaryFn) {
msg += "function+"
}
if let other = NSEvent(cgEvent: event), let chars = other.charactersIgnoringModifiers {
msg += chars
debugPrint(msg)
}
}
return Unmanaged.passRetained(event)
}