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I tried to build a mxk object, that ouputs all the kye strokes even if the Pathcer (M4L-device) doesn't have the focus.

(For the AWT.KeyEvent you would need to apply the EventListener to a UI-Object, so my idea was to add a general EventListener to the Max application and than ask wheather it's a KeyEvent.)

public class getKeystroke extends MaxObject {

    private static final String[] INLET_ASSIST = new String[]{

    private static final String[] OUTLET_ASSIST = new String[]{

        declareInlets(new int[]{DataTypes.ALL});

        declareOutlets(new int[]{DataTypes.ALL});

        setInletAssist(INLET_ASSIST);

        setOutletAssist(OUTLET_ASSIST);

        Toolkit tk = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();

        tk.addAWTEventListener(new AWTEventListener() {

        public void eventDispatched(AWTEvent e)

        }, AWTEvent.KEY_EVENT_MASK );

It doesn't work in Max (Max4Live). But the funny thing is when I edit the code via [mxj quickie]: Every keystroke that I make in the JAVA EDITOR is printed out in the MAX APPLICATION. strange, hm?!

I tried to build a mxk object, that ouputs all the kye strokes even if the Pathcer (M4L-device) doesn't have the focus.
(For the AWT.KeyEvent you would need to apply the EventListener to a UI-Object, so my idea was to add a general EventListener to the Max application and than ask wheather it's a KeyEvent.)

import com.cycling74.max.*;
import java.awt.AWTEvent;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.AWTEventListener;
import java.awt.*;

public class getKeystroke extends MaxObject  {

	private static final String[] INLET_ASSIST = new String[]{
		"inlet 1 help"
	};
	private static final String[] OUTLET_ASSIST = new String[]{
		"outlet 1 help"
	};

	public getKeystroke(Atom[] args)
	{
		declareInlets(new int[]{DataTypes.ALL});
		declareOutlets(new int[]{DataTypes.ALL});

		setInletAssist(INLET_ASSIST);
		setOutletAssist(OUTLET_ASSIST);

		Toolkit tk = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
   		tk.addAWTEventListener(new AWTEventListener() {
		public void eventDispatched(AWTEvent e)
    	{
        outlet(0,e.getID());
    	}
		}, AWTEvent.KEY_EVENT_MASK );

	public void bang()
	{
	outlet(0,"BANG ");
	}

add AWT-Event to Max-Application (for getting Keystrokes)