SharpHook.Reactive

SharpHook is a library which provides a cross-platform global keyboard and mouse hook for .NET. It is a thin wrapper of libuiohook and provides direct access to its features as well as higher-level types to work with it.

If you're using Rx.NET, you can use the SharpHook.Reactive package to integrate SharpHook with Rx.NET.

Usage

Basic Usage

Referer to the SharpHook package for the basic usage guidelines.

Reactive Global Hooks

SharpHook.Reactive provides the IReactiveGlobalHook interface along with a default implementation and an adapter which you can use to use to control the hook and subscribe to its observables. Here's a basic example:

using SharpHook.Reactive; // ... var hook = new SimpleReactiveGlobalHook(); hook.HookEnabled.Subscribe(OnHookEnabled); hook.HookDisabled.Subscribe(OnHookDisabled); hook.KeyTyped.Subscribe(OnKeyTyped); hook.KeyPressed.Subscribe(OnKeyPressed); hook.KeyReleased.Subscribe(OnKeyReleased); hook.MouseClicked.Subscribe(OnMouseClicked); hook.MousePressed.Subscribe(OnMousePressed); hook.MouseReleased.Subscribe(OnMouseReleased); hook.MouseMoved .Throttle(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(0.5)) .Subscribe(OnMouseMoved); hook.MouseDragged .Throttle(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(0.5)) .Subscribe(OnMouseDragged); hook.MouseWheel.Subscribe(OnMouseWheel); await hook.Start();

Reactive global hooks are basically the same as the default global hooks and the same rules apply to them.

SharpHook.Reactive provides two implementations of IReactiveGlobalHook:

• SimpleReactiveGlobalHook runs the hook on a separate thread. Since we are dealing with observables, it's up to you to decide when and where to handle the events through schedulers.

• ReactiveGlobalHookAdapter adapts an IGlobalHook to IReactiveGlobalHook. All subscriptions and changes are propagated to the adapted hook.

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