Ebiten: please add global hotkey support

[zec-github]

dear developers of the fantastic ebiten,

thank you very much for your work and the easy to use GUI creation package.

could you please add global hotkey support?

i would like to react to hotkeys even when the ebiten window does not have focus.

[hajimehoshi]

Hi,

I'm not sure what is 'hotkey'.

[hajimehoshi]

i would like to react to hotkeys even when the ebiten window does not have focus.

Hmm, I think this is not Ebiten's responsibility but OS's responsibility.

[zec-github]

please see https://github.com/glfw/glfw/issues/1204, it is explained better there

the last posts talks about "global hotkeys" that are already implemented... maybe this can be used?

[hajimehoshi]

OK so let's revisit after GLFW implements this since Ebiten depends on GLFW.

Thank you for using Ebiten!

[zec-github]

Ebiten is a great way to have a gui and everything else. All the thanks to you. I just consume. :-)
Here I found the way to register global hotkeys for windows: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38646794/implement-a-global-hotkey-in-golang
I will use this way for now since I only target windows atm.

[zec-github]

@hajimehoshi please take a look at this: https://github.com/robotn/gohook
this exactly does what i need. a bit over-powered (a complete eventlogger for inputs) but already for three platforms.

i understood, you said you will take a look at it when GLFW implements something...

maybe someone else is hyped by ebiten and needs global inputs before that point of time. ;-)

[hajimehoshi]

So you can use this without waiting for Ebiten change?

[zec-github]

Yes, did some testing yesterday on Win10 - no issues. tested today on Win7 in a very strict network and was very suprised that none of the security systems prevented this global hook... Not even local admin rights were needed.
Virustotal and Hybrid-Analysis also do not rate this way of realizing "global hotkeys" as suspicious.

Long answer shot: Yes.

[hajimehoshi]

My understanding is that this feature should be independent from Ebiten, so I'm afraid I would not introduce this.

Thank you for requests!