Mac events

Mac events use the same packages and event masks as Mac - new

First you have to create an event tap:

tap = CGEventTapCreate(

    kCGSessionEventTap,

    kCGHeadInsertEventTap,

    kCGEventTapOptionDefault,

    mask,

    handler,

    None)

Don’t ask me about the parameters, I don’t know. What I do know is that handler is a Python function that is called when an event occurs.

Mask is a set of event masks as listed in Mac - new wrapped in CGEventMaskBit and chained together with an or symbol:

CGEventMaskBit(kCGEventMouseMoved) | CGEventMaskBit(kCGEventLeftMouseDown) | CGEventMaskBit(kCGEventLeftMouseUp) etc.

Now we need another set of loops, taps, sources and what more…

loopsource = CFMachPortCreateRunLoopSource(None, tap, 0)

loop = CFRunLoopGetCurrent()

CFRunLoopAddSource(loop, loopsource, kCFRunLoopDefaultMode)

CGEventTapEnable(tap, True)

Then run it with

CFRunLoopRun()

or

CFRunLoopRunInMode(kCFRunLoopDefaultMode, 5, False)

A good source for more information is the Apple developer documentation, they’ll be in the search result when you google for one of these function names.