Not sure which "capture/playback" feature of Perl you're referring to. (And as far as I know, PerlMonks itself doesn't have such a feature...) Perl doesn't have a capture/playback function built-in.

Perl doesn't deal with keystrokes in an event-driven fashion, normally; instead it deals with streams, UNIXwise. It's possible to get Perl to note the times of keyboard events, and use it to capture keystrokes, but getting such a program to intercept user events before they're passed to your application is up to the operating system and has nothing to do with Perl.

If you're simply talking about parsing a file that records these events, and outputting them to the screen, again, sure, it's possible, but without any knowledge of what the capture/playback feature is, it's not possible to answer your question.

In terms of general starting points for Perl, best place to start is by reading the fine manual.

stephen

In reply to Re: The Future of the Capture/Playback Feature by stephen
in thread The Future of the Capture/Playback Feature by tompoe

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