I want to perform a specific action anytime a certain key combination is pressed while the program is running even if the window is not in focus. For instance, if I press CTRL-U the program would exit. Is this possible?
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I want to perform a specific action anytime a certain key combination is pressed while the program is running even if the window is not in focus. For instance, if I press CTRL-U the program would exit. Is this possible?
Your only real option for this is a lot of JNI. However, this can be quite cumbersome and hard to achieve. My advice is to either go straight C/C++ or not attempt this.