I've been getting into a few Electron projects and I am trying to figure out how you could listen for any keypresses or and track mouse movement when the app is in the background. I am using the menubar plugin so the app is still running in the background.
I tried using the global-shortcut API but it looks like that is for shortcuts only and you can't register individual keystrokes. I've also looked over the API and have yet to find an event for keystrokes and mouse movements outside the app's main screen.
I've been getting into a few Electron projects and I am trying to figure out how you could listen for any keypresses or and track mouse movement when the app is in the background. I am using the menubar plugin so the app is still running in the background.
I tried using the global-shortcut API but it looks like that is for shortcuts only and you can't register individual keystrokes. I've also looked over the API and have yet to find an event for keystrokes and mouse movements outside the app's main screen.
Share Improve this question edited Sep 30, 2019 at 16:50 Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩 5,89372 gold badges61 silver badges133 bronze badges asked Oct 7, 2015 at 7:36 cameronmoreaucameronmoreau 4071 gold badge7 silver badges14 bronze badges1 Answer
Reset to default 7This is outside of the realm of normal use-cases for an electron application. In order to do this you would need to develop a native module that calls into the corresponding native functions of the operating system.
For example on windows: C++ Win32 keyboard events
Making native addons for node: https://nodejs/api/addons.html
FYI, Native addons are very hard.