An event based, Global Keyboard and Mouse listener.
Tested on Windows 7, but should work on Linux and Mac OS X as well (untested).
Node didn't have any global keyboard and mouse listener available at the time.
GKM depends on JNativeHook, which runs on Java. Thus you will need to have a JVM available and more importantly, java availble on your PATH.
In the lib
folder, you will find gkm.jar
, which source you can find at https://github.com/tomzx/gkm-java.
You will also find JNativeHook.jar
, which source you can find at https://github.com/kwhat/jnativehook.
Install gkm via node.js package manager:
npm install gkm --save
Then require the package in your code:
var gkm = require('gkm');
// Listen to all key events (pressed, released, typed)
gkm.events.on('key.*', function(data) {
console.log(this.event + ' ' + data);
});
// Listen to all mouse events (click, pressed, released, moved, dragged)
gkm.events.on('mouse.*', function(data) {
console.log(this.event + ' ' + data);
});
The code is licensed under the MIT license (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). See license.txt.