key codes in the background

alberto-bernal's icon

Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out how to get a key code (through the object "key", for example) while being out of Max. Unlike mouse inputs ("mousestate") that work always, also with Max in the background, "key" is not working, it stops sending key codes whenever I go out of Max. What I mainly want to do is to track a whatsapp real time chat and convert it to sound in real time as well.
Does someone has an advice, a trick, a woraround or a third party solution?
Thanks a lot,
Alberto

Source Audio's icon

if you are lucky Mac user , use hi object to capture keystrokes from the keyboard.
If not .. then you need to learn few things about windows system,
capturing sysem-wide keystorkes and so on.