Bio

Full control of input on any level.

✅ Why choose Bio?

Bio allows monitoring keyboard input on any level of abstraction. It provides an easy-to-use wrapper for the native Win32 low-level keyboard hook as well as the class for working with detected input in a sophisticated way with a rich set of information about each input event.

🔩 Usage

Low-level Hook

using Bio;

using var hook = new KeyboardHook();
hook.Set();
hook.KeyDown += Hook_HandleLowLevelInputMessage;
hook.KeyUp += Hook_HandleLowLevelInputMessage;
hook.Mute();
hook.Unmute();

void Hook_HandleLowLevelInputMessage(object? sender, KeyboardInputMessage e)
{
    var wm = e.WM;
    var lowLevelKeyInfo = e.KBDLLHOOKSTRUCT;
}

High-level Input Detector

using Bio;
using Bio.Win32;

using var keySpy = new KeySpy();
keySpy.Activate();
keySpy.InputDetected += KeySpy_HandleHighLevelInputEvent;
keySpy.Mute();
keySpy.Unmute();

void KeySpy_HandleHighLevelInputEvent(object? sender, KeyInfo e)
{
    // KeyInfo is basically an advanced version of ConsoleKeyInfo
    // that supports all keys and can differentiate between left and right modifier keys.
    VK vkCode = e.VK;
    char keyChar = e.KeyChar;
    ConsoleKey consoleKey = e.ConsoleKey;
    ModifierKeys modifierKeys = e.ModifierKeys;
}

Input Synthesizer

using Bio;
using Bio.Win32;

KeyboardInput.SynthesizePress(VK.LSHIFT, VK.KEY_A, VK.KEY_B);
KeyboardInput.Synthesize(WM.KEYDOWN, VK.KEY_0);
KeyboardInput.Synthesize(WM.KEYUP, VK.KEY_0);

💿 Installation

Download page

For guidance on how to install NuGet packages refer here and here.

💡 Suggestions

If you would like to see some additional functionality that isn't provided by this library yet, feel free to leave your proposals in Issues section. Any feedback is highly appreciated.