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Keyboard Hooks in Lazarus

/ Published in: Pascal

Intercept keyboard events in Lazarus

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unit logkeys;

interface

Procedure StartKeyLogging;
Procedure StopKeyLogging;
Function  IsKeyLogging : Boolean;
Procedure  SetKeyLogFileName(FileName : String);

implementation

uses sysutils,keyboard;

var
  NewKeyBoardDriver,
  OldKeyBoardDriver : TKeyboardDriver;
  Active,Logging : Boolean;
  LogFileName : String;
  KeyLog : Text;

Function TimeStamp : String;

begin
  TimeStamp:=FormatDateTime('hh:nn:ss',Time());
end;

Procedure StartKeyLogging;

begin
  Logging:=True;
  Writeln(KeyLog,'Start logging keystrokes at: ',TimeStamp);
end;

Procedure StopKeyLogging;

begin
  Writeln(KeyLog,'Stop logging keystrokes at: ',TimeStamp);
  Logging:=False;
end;

Function IsKeyLogging : Boolean;

begin
  IsKeyLogging:=Logging;
end;

Function LogGetKeyEvent : TKeyEvent;

Var
  K : TKeyEvent;

begin
  K:=OldkeyboardDriver.GetKeyEvent();
  If Logging then
    begin
    Write(KeyLog,TimeStamp,': Key event: ');
    Writeln(KeyLog,KeyEventToString(TranslateKeyEvent(K)));
    end;
  LogGetKeyEvent:=K;
end;

Procedure LogInitKeyBoard;

begin
  OldKeyBoardDriver.InitDriver();
  Assign(KeyLog,logFileName);
  Rewrite(KeyLog);
  Active:=True;
  StartKeyLogging;
end;

Procedure LogDoneKeyBoard;

begin
  StopKeyLogging;
  Close(KeyLog);
  Active:=False;
  OldKeyBoardDriver.DoneDriver();
end;

Procedure SetKeyLogFileName(FileName : String);

begin
  If Not Active then
    LogFileName:=FileName;
end;

Initialization
  GetKeyBoardDriver(OldKeyBoardDriver);
  NewKeyBoardDriver:=OldKeyBoardDriver;
  NewKeyBoardDriver.GetKeyEvent:=@LogGetKeyEvent;
  NewKeyBoardDriver.InitDriver:=@LogInitKeyboard;
  NewKeyBoardDriver.DoneDriver:=@LogDoneKeyboard;
  LogFileName:='keyboard.log';
  Logging:=False;
  SetKeyboardDriver(NewKeyBoardDriver);
end.

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program example9;

{ This program demonstrates the logkeys unit }

uses keyboard,logkeys;

Var
  K : TKeyEvent;

begin
  InitKeyBoard;
  Writeln('Press keys, press "q" to end, "s" toggles logging.');
  Repeat
    K:=GetKeyEvent;
    K:=TranslateKeyEvent(K);
    Writeln('Got key : ',KeyEventToString(K));
    if GetKeyEventChar(K)='s' then
      if IsKeyLogging then
        StopKeyLogging
      else
        StartKeyLogging;
  Until (GetKeyEventChar(K)='q');
  DoneKeyBoard;
end.

URL: http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/rtl/keyboard/kbddriver.html

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