justcoding121 / windows-user-action-hook

A .NET library to subscribe for Windows operating system global user actions such mouse, keyboard, clipboard & print events

Windows User Action Hook

Note: This Project is no longer maintained.

A one stop library for global windows user actions such mouse, keyboard, clipboard, & print events

Kindly report only issues/bugs here . For programming help or questions use StackOverflow with the tag EventHook or Windows-User-Action-Hook.

• API Documentation

Supported Events

• Keyboard events
• Mouse events
• clipboard events
• application events
• print events

Development enviroment

• Visual Studio 2017

Usage

Install by nuget

Install-Package EventHook

Sample Code:

using (var eventHookFactory = new EventHookFactory())
{
    var keyboardWatcher = eventHookFactory.GetKeyboardWatcher();
    keyboardWatcher.Start();
    keyboardWatcher.OnKeyInput += (s, e) =>
    {
        Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Key {0} event of key {1}", e.KeyData.EventType, e.KeyData.Keyname));
    };

    var mouseWatcher = eventHookFactory.GetMouseWatcher();
    mouseWatcher.Start();
    mouseWatcher.OnMouseInput += (s, e) =>
    {
        Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Mouse event {0} at point {1},{2}", e.Message.ToString(), e.Point.x, e.Point.y));
    };

    var clipboardWatcher = eventHookFactory.GetClipboardWatcher();
    clipboardWatcher.Start();
    clipboardWatcher.OnClipboardModified += (s, e) =>
    {
        Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Clipboard updated with data '{0}' of format {1}", e.Data, e.DataFormat.ToString()));
    };


    var applicationWatcher = eventHookFactory.GetApplicationWatcher();
    applicationWatcher.Start();
    applicationWatcher.OnApplicationWindowChange += (s, e) =>
    {
        Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Application window of '{0}' with the title '{1}' was {2}", e.ApplicationData.AppName, e.ApplicationData.AppTitle, e.Event));
    };

    var printWatcher = eventHookFactory.GetPrintWatcher();
    printWatcher.Start();
    printWatcher.OnPrintEvent += (s, e) =>
    {
        Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Printer '{0}' currently printing {1} pages.", e.EventData.PrinterName, e.EventData.Pages));
    };

    //waiting here to keep this thread running           
    Console.Read();

    //stop watching
    keyboardWatcher.Stop();
    mouseWatcher.Stop();
    clipboardWatcher.Stop();
    applicationWatcher.Stop();
    printWatcher.Stop();
}