GianlucaGuarini / OSXKeyboard

Go helper script to detect the global keypress events on OSX

OSXKeyboard

Go helper to detect the global keypress events on OSX, it requires the root permissions enabled

Installation

go get github.com/GianlucaGuarini/OSXKeyboard

API

Listen

Call it once to start listening the global keyboard events

Subscribe(interface {})

Subscribe to the keypress events receiving the letter pressed as string

Unsubscribe(interface {})

Unsubscribe a specific callback to the keypress events

Usage

Build the following file from your go/src folder and then run it with sudo

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "github.com/GianlucaGuarini/OSXKeyboard"
)

func main() {
  go OSXKeyboard.Listen()

  OSXKeyboard.Subscribe(func(letter string) {
    fmt.Println(letter)
  })

  select {} // block forever
}