Has anyone managed to get this function to work in Swift?
Here is a reference SO post from last year: Using CGEventTapCreate Trouble with parameters in Swift
Apple Doc: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/documentation/Carbon/Reference/QuartzEventServicesRef/index.html#//apple_ref/c/func/CGEventTapCreate
Here is how the CGEventTapCallBack is defined:
typealias CGEventTapCallBack = CFunctionPointer<((CGEventTapProxy, CGEventType, CGEvent!, UnsafeMutablePointer<Void>) -> Unmanaged<CGEvent>!)>
Here is how I've written the block:
let eventTapCallBackBlock : @objc_block
(CGEventTapProxy, CGEventType, CGEventRef, UnsafeMutablePointer<Void>) -> CGEventRef =
{ (eventTapProxy: CGEventTapProxy, eventType: CGEventType, event: CGEventRef, refcon: UnsafeMutablePointer<Void>) in
return event
}
Then I've called CGEventTapCreate with the callback parameter like unsafeBitCast(eventTapCallBackBlock, CGEventTapCallBack.self)
I get a valid CFMachPortRef
back, but at run time I get an access violation exception on first event. It would "seem" I'm close to a solution in swift in its current release state.
Using Xcode Version 6.4
The callback
parameter of CGEventTapCreate()
is a C function pointer,
and in Swift 1.x it is not possible call it with a Swift function argument.
However, in Swift 2 (Xcode 7), C functions that take function pointer arguments
can be called using closures or global functions (with the restriction that the
closure must not capture any of its local context).
As an example, here is a complete translation of
Receiving, Filtering, and Modifying Key Presses and Releases
to Swift:
import Foundation
func myCGEventCallback(proxy : CGEventTapProxy, type : CGEventType, event : CGEvent, refcon : UnsafeMutablePointer<Void>) -> Unmanaged<CGEvent>? {
if [.KeyDown , .KeyUp].contains(type) {
var keyCode = CGEventGetIntegerValueField(event, .KeyboardEventKeycode)
if keyCode == 0 {
keyCode = 6
} else if keyCode == 6 {
keyCode = 0
}
CGEventSetIntegerValueField(event, .KeyboardEventKeycode, keyCode)
}
return Unmanaged.passRetained(event)
}
let eventMask = (1 << CGEventType.KeyDown.rawValue) | (1 << CGEventType.KeyUp.rawValue)
guard let eventTap = CGEventTapCreate(.CGSessionEventTap,
.HeadInsertEventTap,
.Default,
CGEventMask(eventMask),
myCGEventCallback,
nil) else {
print("failed to create event tap")
exit(1)
}
let runLoopSource = CFMachPortCreateRunLoopSource(kCFAllocatorDefault, eventTap, 0)
CFRunLoopAddSource(CFRunLoopGetCurrent(), runLoopSource, kCFRunLoopCommonModes)
CGEventTapEnable(eventTap, true)
CFRunLoopRun()
Update for Swift 3:
import Foundation
func myCGEventCallback(proxy: CGEventTapProxy, type: CGEventType, event: CGEvent, refcon: UnsafeMutableRawPointer?) -> Unmanaged<CGEvent>? {
if [.keyDown , .keyUp].contains(type) {
var keyCode = event.getIntegerValueField(.keyboardEventKeycode)
if keyCode == 0 {
keyCode = 6
} else if keyCode == 6 {
keyCode = 0
}
event.setIntegerValueField(.keyboardEventKeycode, value: keyCode)
}
return Unmanaged.passRetained(event)
}
let eventMask = (1 << CGEventType.keyDown.rawValue) | (1 << CGEventType.keyUp.rawValue)
guard let eventTap = CGEvent.tapCreate(tap: .cgSessionEventTap,
place: .headInsertEventTap,
options: .defaultTap,
eventsOfInterest: CGEventMask(eventMask),
callback: myCGEventCallback,
userInfo: nil) else {
print("failed to create event tap")
exit(1)
}
let runLoopSource = CFMachPortCreateRunLoopSource(kCFAllocatorDefault, eventTap, 0)
CFRunLoopAddSource(CFRunLoopGetCurrent(), runLoopSource, .commonModes)
CGEvent.tapEnable(tap: eventTap, enable: true)
CFRunLoopRun()