How to capture global key presses in java

Question

I made a simple Media player in Java but I want to record global key presses like Ctrl + P to pause/resume the current music being pla

Answer 1

Try JNativeHook. Here is a sample that shows how to use it to capture global key presses:

try
{
    GlobalScreen.registerNativeHook();
    GlobalScreen.addNativeKeyListener(new NativeKeyListener()
    {

        @Override
        public void nativeKeyTyped(NativeKeyEvent nativeEvent)
        {
        }

        @Override
        public void nativeKeyReleased(NativeKeyEvent nativeEvent)
        {
            String keyText=NativeKeyEvent.getKeyText(nativeEvent.getKeyCode());
            System.out.println("User typed: "+keyText);
        }

        @Override
        public void nativeKeyPressed(NativeKeyEvent nativeEvent)
        {   
        }
     });
}
catch (NativeHookException e)
{
    e.printStackTrace();
}

If you are using maven, add this to your pom.xml:

    com.1stleg
    jnativehook
    2.1.0