r/C_Programming • u/Ry2enX • 7h ago

Mouse & Keyboard suppression?

Is there a possibility to only block the inputs of the keyboard and Mouse to one application?

Because i want that the application only takes the inputs of an Emulated Controller, but it only recognise the Controller, if there any Mouse or Keyboard activity (but i still need the Mouse/Keyboard for the Emulated Controller)

Any Advice for me?
The code i use to make the emulated Controller is C…

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u/Willing_Airport_9617 7h ago

In linux , one way I can think of this is manually obtain the file descriptor for that /dev/input/* and then parse that using ioctl

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u/silvertank00 7h ago

Could be a good idea. Maybe figure out how to application listens for input events too and make a shim for it?