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Creating a Keyboard Logger Help


djspark

djspark
Jan 29, 2011 at 7:07pm

Creating a Keyboard Logger Help

Hello,
I’ve been trying to create a keyboard stroke logger for the past days, and i managed to record into max window every stroke while max is selected through the key function and the printing it out to the max window. The problem is that I need max to keep recording the strokes used whilst on background.
I tried using the hi function but it only logs numbers, not the letters.
Can you guys help me out here?
Here’s what i’ve got so far:

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Thanks.

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Luke Hall

Luke Hall
Jan 29, 2011 at 10:43pm

You will need to use [hi] instead of [key]. Look into something like [itoa] although you might need to use some basic maths or create a custom [coll] to do the mapping for you.

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kaboo

kaboo
Jan 29, 2011 at 11:34pm

Hi,
try this. I`m sure there is a smarter way doing this. But it is working.
I only did it for three keys so it may take a while to figure out and program all the other keys.
You can then use [text] to save the keystrokes as a textfile.

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cheers.

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kaboo

kaboo
Jan 30, 2011 at 9:03am

Hi,
here is the optimized version of the patch.
Just create the numbers + ASCII Code for all the keys in a text file in [coll].
Not working at the moment is shift/alt/cmd/F1….F12.

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djspark

djspark
Jan 31, 2011 at 1:52am

Thanks guys you are really helping.
I managed to map almost all the keyboard using spray.
but now it prints everything doubled. i mean, the “key in” and “key out”.

any clues on how to filter this to only show one stroke and not everything doubled?
Here’s the patch

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kaboo

kaboo
Jan 31, 2011 at 4:11pm

Hi,
I made some improvements.
Its now possible to write the log into a text file and save incl. date&time.

If you want avoid the double printing in your patch use [togedge].
See my patch for example.
To use the patch copy the two .txt files attached to a folder on your HD and use ->options -> file preferences – to include the path of the folder in which you copied the files.

cheers

Attachments:
  1. keylist.txt
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kaboo

kaboo
Jan 31, 2011 at 4:17pm

Its not possible to upload the other .txt file.
just create an empty one and call it keylogfile.txt

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djspark

djspark
Jan 31, 2011 at 6:33pm

you patch keeps loggin cmdR and nothing else :S

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kaboo

kaboo
Jan 31, 2011 at 7:13pm

its working fine here…did you try different settings in umenu?
change to another keyboard?
is max missing the keylist.txt file?
what system are you running max?
pc or win?

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djspark

djspark
Jan 31, 2011 at 11:12pm

i’m running max on a mac. yes i did try different settings on the menu, tried all keyboards and max is not missing any keylist.txt file.

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kaboo

kaboo
Feb 1, 2011 at 9:38am

check if file keylist.txt is empty.
check if the numbers of your keyboard shown in [key] and [print keynumber] match in keylist.txt.
if not, add the numbers matching your keyboard.
open keylogfile.txt. see if there is logtext (or even date and time) in this file.
upload a screenshot of the patch.

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