A MVP basic application used to capture Windows Mouse events using RawInput and Hooks for keyboard, to send to a Mac where syntetic events are created to control the Mac from Windows
The current approach relies on RawInput for capturing mouse movement, with an additional hook on top installed to swallow events for when you want to send events to Mac. This will make Windows unresponsive and forward events over UDP. The hotkey per now is hardcoded to PageUp.
The keyboard relies entirely on a hook to capture, send and swallow events.
The reason I went for hooks in both cases is because it was the only way I managed to swallow events. Combining RawInput and hooks for keyboard did not work either, since the hook made it so no events actually got captured when I wanted to swallow the events and rely entirely on RawInput for captruing events.
- Hard coded hotkey
- Hard coded IP
- No encryption of data sent from one machine to the other
- For some reason, SecondaryFn and NumericPad mask (maybe other masks, not tested extensively) is added on space switches. I manually remove them now, but all edge cases are not taken into account.
Development is done on M1 Mac with mingw64 compiler installed through brew. A mingw toolchain is included based upon that.
# Builds Mac-Listen
cmake --preset debug && cmake --build --preset debug
cmake --preset release && cmake --build --preset release#Builds Windows-Capture
cmake --preset windows-debug && cmake --build --preset windows-debug