Reading input (keyboard, mouse) on an unfocused window?

[Moonkis]

Well as the title says I'm wondering if it's at all possible within love to read keystrokes, mouse inputs when the game is unfocused (foreground)? isDown, keypressed and keyreleased seems to produce nothing when the window isn't focused.

[slime]

love (and SDL, the library love uses for cross-platform input) don't have that capability. What sort of thing would you use it for?

[Moonkis]

love (and SDL, the library love uses for cross-platform input) don't have that capability. What sort of thing would you use it for?

Ah, I see. I imagine it being platform dependent. In this case I would use it to create a few graphical twitch/stream tools that are ran in the background, and needs to read the keyboard/mouse/gamepad, outside of Löve2D's scope I'm sure but I thought it was worth a shot to ask.

[slime]

You can enable joystick/gamepad input events while the window isn't in focus, at least: https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/issues/ ... ndow-focus

[DarkShroom]

can i add, if it's useful, that i have the same issue everywhere, it's the same on java for example

it's a security issue, it stops you from key logging, in the case of java, you need an OS specific hook, to do that keylogging

[zorg]

You can also use the FFI to achieve the same thing in löve, probably; it wouldn't be a cross-platform solution though.