I have created a pre-login agent which uses CGEventPost for simulating keyboard. FYI I am developing a remote control app similar to teamviewer.
Keyboard (I tried other event sources too) CGEventRef keyEvent = CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent( NULL, keyCode, down ) ; CGEventPost( kCGHIDEventTap, keyEvent ) ; CFRelease( keyEvent ) ; Mouse CGEventRef event = CGEventCreateMouseEvent(eventSource, eventType, mouseLocation, mouseButton ); CGEventPost(kCGHIDEventTap, event); CFRelease(event); Pre-login launch agent <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>my app label</string> <key>LimitLoadToSessionType</key> <string>LoginWindow</string> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> <key>WorkingDirectory</key> <string>My app directory</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>app absolute path</string> <string>service</string> <string>myservice</string> </array> <key>KeepAlive</key> <true/> </dict> </plist> CGEventPost is not working, I get the following in the Console logs after login Untrusted apps are not allowed to connect to Window Server before login. I have searched o chromium's remote control (which has keyboard and mouse simulation working) source code. They use CGEventPost for keyboard, but it works in login window. https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/remoting/host/ input_injector_mac.cc?rcl=0&l=42 They seem to use a sh file in privileged helper tools directory and use to to load the service, I tried putting our service in privileged helpers tool, but still the event handling fails. The Deprecated API CGPostMouseEvent, CGPostKeyBoardEvent work without problem , but would really like to know how non deprecated keyboard API works in chromium. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
