Event listener in Java without app having focus? (Global keypress detection)

Question

I\'ve been searching for a while and everybody seems to think this is not possible using just Java, so I\'ll give SO a shot ;)

Is there any way to have my Java appli

Answer 1

It's my understanding that this can't be done. At a fundamental level, the JVM only generates events for O/S events it receives, and it only receives O/S input events when it has focus.

I am sure you could use JNI to trigger the O/S to generate events for all input, but that would be very O/S dependent.