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Hello! Is possible to catch mouse or keyboard events in a VLC Lua addons?

I tried some ways and looking for some solutions but doesn't work.

I've found this example in other addons https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/8097 but does not work in my VLC 2.1 (Mac). What is the correct way to catch this events, the documentation do not say nothing about that.

Thank you.

No.

The only way is programming the extension in C?

In C or C++ (or Objective on MacOS).

Just the last question Rémi. If i write this plugin i have to recompile the VLC player? And the users want to use it have to uninstall the original version and install my VLC version?
Or the plugins in C/Objc works more or less like LUA in terms of install?

You don't strictly have to recompile VLC, but you have to compile the plugin for each combination of VLC version, target platform and target operating system.

When you say each VLC version you mean all the subversions aswell?
2.1.4, 2.1.3, 2.1.2 ...
or only
2.x.x, 1.x.x, 0.x.x
or
2.1.x, 2.0.x, 1.1.x

The documentation is very poor any ideas where i can start with?
Thank you very much for your help.

Usually, 2.0.x, 2.1.x, but no promises.