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Using Java, is it possible to detect user actions, such as key-presses, mouse-button-presses, and/or mouse’s screen location, without the use of GUI elements?
If it is, how could I implement it?
Otherwise, what are the alternatives?
The only StackOverflow source i found on this matter is this question, which is unanswered.
And the only sources I found outside StackOverflow on this matter point to an “Invisible GUI” solution, wish is something i really want to avoid.
It can be implemented using JNI and/or JNA but this cannot be really called “java implementation” because you will have to write platform specific native code.
Alternative solution I tried is to use full screen transparent widow that is listening to all events of mouse and keyboard and “forwards” them to the real application using class
Robot. I tried this approach. It works well with one limitation: there is a problem to support “mouse over” events of applications: the mouse is not moving over the real application. It is moving over the transparent java window.