Any events that don't need window focus?

radiantDev · Post by **radiantDev** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:14 am

I am trying to start and stop a timer I made in love2d, but I want to be able to start and stop it even when the window does not have focus. Is this possible? I already tried the Keypress callback and love.keyboard.isDown() but they don't work without focus.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

zhek0s · Post by **zhek0s** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 2:53 pm

Try to use this:
http://love2d.org/wiki/love.window.isVisible

zorg · Post by **zorg** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:45 pm

Unless you get some kind of hooking library that notifies your program about keypresses/whatever as the os receives them, i don't think it's possible.

T-Bone · Post by **T-Bone** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 10:45 am

I think it's deliberate that input (keyboard, mouse, etc) shouldn't affect a window that's not in focus. love.update still runs, but you can't (and shouldn't) be able to access any input.

If you need that, it sounds like you're choosing the wrong tool for the job.

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