How to get the last key pressed on Mac ?

Question

Hi All,

I'm writing a plugin for an application. I cannot derive from NSApplication as it is a third party application. I can get the callback in my plugin when any key is pressed. But I will not know what key is pressed. So is there any call in Cocoa to find the last key pressed when I get the callback? I only have NSView object.

Any ideas will help me a lot.

Thanks,

Dheeraj.

Answer 1

A couple of thoughts:

1. Use [NSApp currentEvent]. I know you don't think you have an NSApplication instance, but you should try this. It might work.
2. Do some event monitoring in your plugin (CGEventTap, NSEvent local monitor, etc) and record whenever you see a keypress event.