java console mouselistener

Question

I am trying to make a mouse recorder, I cant seem to get a mouse listener to work with a console, is this possable and how would I go about it Thanks.

Answer 1

Unless you wrote your own console that fired mouse events, I dont' think you're going to be able to do it. What widget are you going to register your mouselistener against otherwise? The console isn't a swing component, therefore, no swing events.

Answer 2

You can do this by using global hooks. In order to use them you'll need to include some natives or try the same using JNI (see: wikipedia).

Two examples:

• http://kra.lc/blog/2011/07/java-global-system-hook/
  (works well - I would advice to re-indent the c++ content and if you know how to do, merge it into 1-2 files - your eyes will thank you)
• http://www.jotschi.de/Technik/2008/01/06/java-global-keyboard-hook-jni.html
  (never tried, but looks more simple)

Edit:

• Example for some playback functionalities:

  import java.awt.AWTException;
  import java.awt.DisplayMode;
  import java.awt.MouseInfo;
  import java.awt.PointerInfo;
  import java.awt.Robot;
  import java.util.Random;
  
  // class instructions
  
  try {
      PointerInfo pntInfo = MouseInfo.getPointerInfo();
      DisplayMode dispMode = pntInfo.getDevice().getDisplayMode();
      int newX = new Random().nextInt( dispMode.getWidth() );
      int newY = new Random().nextInt( dispMode.getHeight() );
      new Robot( pntInfo.getDevice() ).mouseMove( newX, newY );
  } catch ( AWTException exception ) {  }
  

Sorry for my late answer ;)