You need to do remote debugging, you can look up how to accomplish
this, I did it some years ago and don't remember.
Look at the Cocoa and Carbon APIs and make educated guesses as to what
would be called when for example, a contextual menu is to be displayed.
Set a break point on that API.
Perform the action on the target machine and see if it hits. If not
make another guess. You will be surprised how quickly you can home in
on correct API.
I did this years ago building a DRM KEXT and could trap, in one
example all print operations from all applications.
Good luck!
db
On Aug 5, 2009, at 9:42 AM, Ken Thomases wrote:
On Aug 5, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Sandro Noel wrote:
what I would like to do is broad range, get information about every
action for every application in my current desktop session.
Window movement, hide, show, activate, deactivate, open, close,
mouse movement, drag and drop operations, contextual menus pop-up.
I want to know everything.
Raw mouse movements, or mouse clicks are of little interest, so are
keyboard events.
What i am interested in is the action happening after a mouse
movement or click, or keyboard shortcuts, menu selections has
happened.
anything that influences display of content on the desktop.
Hmm, I don't think you can quite achieve that.
Event taps can only give you the low-level events like mouse clicks
and key presses.
The individual frameworks (Carbon and Cocoa) are responsible for
interpreting those events into the higher-level behaviors you're
talking about. And that generally occurs inside of individual
application processes, not centrally in the window server where
event taps operate.
You might look into the Accessibility API. That can probably give a
richer description of what's happening, although perhaps not as rich
as you're hoping.
Regards,
Ken
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